The FC Metz Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
LOSC Lille come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and FC Metz did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Timothée Kolodziejczak gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Timothée Kolodziejczak has just signed for FC Metz, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at FC Metz
Giorgi Kvilitaia 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at FC Metz
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at FC Metz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Habib Diallo 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Yann Lambert steps up from the FC Metz academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yann Lambert has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Olivier Guérin joins the FC Metz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olivier Guérin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Michel Brunet joins the FC Metz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michel Brunet is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
FC Metz lose Bryan Song
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Boardroom FC Metz turn down the training-ground plan
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Jordan Amavi