The Valenciennes Post
Squad29 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Alain Ipiélé out for 37 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valenciennes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Valenciennes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Martial Godo 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
Words exchanged at Valenciennes
Samir Belloumou and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Calvin Obin pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Abdelwahed Wahib
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdelwahed Wahib, and the manager let it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Hervé Boua Dié gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Hervé Boua Dié is on it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Baptiste Nouchet a promise
- The dugout Jordan Agblemagnon knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: Dijon at home