The Paris FC Courier
Squad12 Jul 2032
28 days out for Thibault De Smet after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paris FC will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Jul 2032
Sacha Bernard hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Paris FC can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Jul 2032
A falling-out at Paris FC
Ilan Kebbal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Jul 2032
Real improvement from Amine Lazrak at Paris FC
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amine Lazrak is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Jul 2032
A row about effort at Paris FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pierre Lees-Melou was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2032
Paris FC rebuffed over Justin Hateboer
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Valenciennes have kept their man, and Paris FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout12 Jul 2032
When it matters, Kaïl Boudache plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Jul 2032
The Maxime Lopez question follows Paris FC around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Maxime Lopez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Jul 2032
The manager makes Kaïl Boudache a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Paris FC. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
- The dugout Salifou Sylla knocks on the manager's door
- Market Óskar Morales joins Paris FC on a free
- Market Jonas Jäger leaves for nothing