The Sochaux Courier
Squad24 May 2027
The knee: Jonathan Mexique out for 58 days
58 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sochaux lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad24 May 2027
A fracture rules Dylan Tavares out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sochaux will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 May 2027
Boubacar Fofana honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Sochaux had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad24 May 2027
A row about effort at Sochaux
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Myron van Brederode was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 May 2027
Aboubacar Sidibé gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match24 May 2027
Sochaux have something to play for
Position 4 on 42 points, and the places that carry a European ticket are close enough to count. Seasons like this are decided by two results in April, and the club knows which two.
In brief
- The dugout Benjamin Gomel knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes Nacim El Hassani a promise
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Dylan Tavares
- Loan watch Enzo-Noël Dodé's loan at Paris FC nearly up