The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 8 gone
That is the business done at AJ Auxerre until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
Axel Tuanzebe raises the bar for AJ Auxerre
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at AJ Auxerre heard it as anything else.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kévin Danois falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
AJ Auxerre rebuffed over Tylel Tati
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Nantes have kept their man, and AJ Auxerre go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Talks stall between AJ Auxerre and Kévin Danois
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 new faces, and AJ Auxerre are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Aaron Issumo 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 AJ Auxerre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Donovan Léon knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AJ Auxerre, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The armband comes off Donovan Léon
AJ Auxerre will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
In brief
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Toulouse FC at home
- The dugout The manager comes out for Romain Faivre