Máximo Rodríguez

Central Midfielder - Valenciennes
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The Valenciennes Post

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Dec 2027

A one-man rearguard from Jean Louchet

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Clément Rodrigues 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.

Squad20 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Valenciennes

Daou Diomandé 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 ratings20 Dec 2027

Mohamed Ihattaren was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match18 Dec 2027

Late, late show earns Valenciennes a point

Minute 91, against LB Chateauroux, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Player ratings20 Dec 2027

The afternoon belonged to Charles Abi

A mark of 7.92, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match18 Dec 2027

Charles Abi rescues a point for Valenciennes

It needed Charles Abi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against LB Chateauroux, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

Bryan Passi is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Joseph Rey chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

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45 Edition

The Valenciennes Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Jun 2027

Samir Belloumou hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Valenciennes can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Valenciennes agree $83.0K for Tidiane Devernois

The clubs have shaken hands with AJ Auxerre; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Mohamed Ihattaren 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 Valenciennes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Charles Abi 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.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words at Valenciennes training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hicham Khaloua 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.

Market7 Jun 2027

Still no ink between Valenciennes and Samuel Loric

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Valenciennes, another week without a signature from Samuel Loric.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

$3.3M on the table at Valenciennes

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Valenciennes take the armband off Samuel Loric

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Alain Ipiélé knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alain Ipiélé trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief