Victor Divine

Striker - RC Strasbourg
8 Feb 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Victor Divine

21 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Joaquín Panichelli out for 62 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason RC Strasbourg will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

A brace, and Diego Moreira takes the afternoon — 8.57

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Diego Moreira provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Victor Divine: 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.” RC Strasbourg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at RC Strasbourg

Ben Chilwell 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 terraces

RC Strasbourg supporters have found a favourite in Diego Moreira

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Diego Moreira has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Ismaël Doukouré 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.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Diego Moreira

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Victor Divine says RC Strasbourg went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at RC Strasbourg

Mike Penders 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

Words at RC Strasbourg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Chilwell 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Datro Fofana

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

RC Strasbourg see off Le Havre AC

Three points for RC Strasbourg, 2‑0 the final word against Le Havre AC in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Datro Fofana at his very best

Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at RC Strasbourg.

Squad

Andrew Omobamidele suspended

One booking too many, and Andrew Omobamidele sits out. RC Strasbourg lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

Player ratings

Ben Chilwell shuts the door

Defensive actions: 9, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief

5 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at RC Strasbourg

Ben Chilwell 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.

Player ratings

Joaquín Panichelli runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Julio Enciso

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

RC Strasbourg find a way past FC Nantes

FC Nantes made RC Strasbourg work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Louis Albert Cissé out for 53 days

The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Louis Albert Cissé, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Julio Enciso was the difference for RC Strasbourg

Marked 7.80. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad

Ismaël Doukouré dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Squad

Victor Divine gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Joaquín Panichelli talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. RC Strasbourg know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief