Mamadou Conté

Central Defender - Bourg-Peronnas
27 May 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Mamadou Conté

4 Edition

The Bourg-Peronnas Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Teddy Boulhendi keeps Bourg-Peronnas in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Mamadou Conté puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Bourg-Peronnas, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Bourg-Peronnas

Sidi Cissé 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 row about effort at Bourg-Peronnas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mathéo Bodmer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Enzo Mayilla

Bourg-Peronnas asked and AS Saint-Etienne said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

FC Versailles take the points off Bourg-Peronnas

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Édouard Dupont to a room that had heard them before.

Looking ahead

Ange-Kévine Gnabo goes back to face Sochaux

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ange-Kévine Gnabo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Bourg-Peronnas needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Mamadou Magassouba

Nobody at Bourg-Peronnas is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Bourg-Peronnas Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Lassine Diarra will not be coming to Bourg-Peronnas

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Olympique Lyonnais is saying, and nobody at Bourg-Peronnas is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Sidi Cissé 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 Bourg-Peronnas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Bourg-Peronnas rebuffed over Bahmed Deuff

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Nantes have kept their man, and Bourg-Peronnas go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Bourg-Peronnas come up short against US Concarneau

US Concarneau left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Édouard Dupont answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

A row about effort at Bourg-Peronnas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jonathan Do Marcolino was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Enzo Mayilla is in the works

Bourg-Peronnas have made the call to AS Saint-Etienne. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Bourg-Peronnas

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andy Pembélé

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

1 Edition

The Bourg-Peronnas Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Quentin Lacour stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Quentin Lacour and Bourg-Peronnas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Bourg-Peronnas

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

Squad

A row about effort at Bourg-Peronnas

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mathéo Bodmer was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

9 new faces, and Bourg-Peronnas 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.

Transfer targets

Bourg-Peronnas try to borrow Théo De Percin

AJ Auxerre have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Bourg-Peronnas try to borrow Joshua Duffus

AS Saint-Etienne have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Bourg-Peronnas try to borrow Bradel Kiwa

Monaco have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Still no ink between Bourg-Peronnas and Francis Kembolo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bourg-Peronnas, another week without a signature from Francis Kembolo.

Market

Mamadou Conté told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mamadou Conté has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Bourg-Peronnas.

In brief