The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Squad29 Mar 2027
Real improvement from Aaron Issumo at AJ Auxerre
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Aaron Issumo is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at AJ Auxerre training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sinaly Diomandé 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at AJ Auxerre
Feydji Vienne was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Fredrik Oppegård
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fredrik Oppegård, and the manager let it.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
The goals keep arriving from Ryan Rodin’s exile
9 goals in 25 games at SC Aubagne Air Bel — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at AJ Auxerre updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Telli Siwe has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AJ Auxerre will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
A door opens for Ivan Ignatjev
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Paul Nardi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Paul Nardi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Home comforts ahead for AJ Auxerre
OGC Nice, position 6, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
In brief
- Squad Word from the training ground: Sékou Mara
- Match A season winding down at AJ Auxerre