Benit Mukwabango

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The Le Havre AC Chronicle

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Mory Diaw damages knee ligaments — 127 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 127 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Reda Khadra

Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 33 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings

Noam Obougou Jacquet, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65

A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Le Havre AC

Jacen Russell-Rowe 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

Noam Obougou Jacquet signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Noam Obougou Jacquet and Le Havre AC agree another 4 years.

Match

A bad afternoon for Le Havre AC against Tours

1‑3 to Tours, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Rassoul Ndiaye 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 Elysée Logbo conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Clermont Foot will make the call about Elysée Logbo this week. Le Havre AC have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

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The FC Metz Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Giorgi Kvilitaia damages knee ligaments — 69 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 69 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

FC Metz lose Francis Coquelin

40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Cléo Mélières is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A late step up for Jonathan Fischer

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market

The Romain Jean-Baptiste conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: US Creteil will make the call about Romain Jean-Baptiste this week. FC Metz have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Boardroom

$833.3K lands at FC Metz thanks to Michel Mboula

A clause somebody insisted on years ago, in a negotiation nobody remembers, has just paid FC Metz $833.3K. Michel Mboula left a long time ago; the paperwork stayed.

In brief