The Stade Lavallois Courier
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A debut Evan Bouttier will not forget — 7.74
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.74 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mamadou Samassa keeps Stade Lavallois in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Owen Kouassi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Lavallois this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Cyril Mandouki stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cyril Mandouki and Stade Lavallois agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Stade Lavallois training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Mbayo is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
Malik Sellouki is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Stade Lavallois has been clear about where Malik Sellouki stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Eros Maddy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Aug 2026
Evan Bouttier rescues a point for Stade Lavallois
It needed Evan Bouttier to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Chamois Niortais, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Jules Gaudin's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
In brief
- Market Stade Lavallois and Maxime Hautbois are talking past each other
- Market Enzo Cadiou leaves for nothing
- The terraces The press have found their man in Mamadou Samassa