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19 Feb 2027
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The AC Ajaccio Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at AC Ajaccio

Yoann Court and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Hilan Hamzaoui Slimani gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Hilan Hamzaoui Slimani has just signed for AC Ajaccio, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Kévin Théophile-Catherine 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.

Boardroom

Nacim Dendani will join AC Ajaccio for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Nacim Dendani has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means AC Ajaccio have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

AC Ajaccio rebuffed over Amal Boura

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Monaco have kept their man, and AC Ajaccio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

No place for Hilan Hamzaoui Slimani in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation AC Ajaccio are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yohann Campanini

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yohann Campanini, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Cédric Avinel 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 Cédric Avinel trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

AC Ajaccio pick up Hilan Hamzaoui Slimani for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Hilan Hamzaoui Slimani arrives at AC Ajaccio with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The AC Ajaccio Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jean-David Uras asks to leave AC Ajaccio

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Enzo Hoyau: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AC Ajaccio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at AC Ajaccio

Kévin Théophile-Catherine 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.

Squad

A move Alex Candia would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alex Candia is living that version at AC Ajaccio, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Andy Delort signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andy Delort and AC Ajaccio agree another 2 years.

Squad

Paris Brunner 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.

Boardroom

AC Ajaccio agree a free transfer for Yannis Lagha

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets

AC Ajaccio rebuffed over Denis Bouanga

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Los Angeles Football Club have kept their man, and AC Ajaccio go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

AC Ajaccio promote Marc Roger from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marc Roger has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief