The Red Star Courier
Squad25 Jun 2029
The knee: Jacques Joly out for 18 days
18 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Red Star lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market25 Jun 2029
Abdelsamad Hachem asks to leave Red Star
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Tempers go at Red Star
Gaëtan Poussin 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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A row about effort at Red Star
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Islamdine Halifa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Mohamed Coulibaly stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mohamed Coulibaly and Red Star agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
A loan move for Ernest Nuamah is in the works
Red Star have made the call to Paris Saint-Germain. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market25 Jun 2029
Leonardo Buta linked with a move away
The name of Leonardo Buta keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Red Star say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Quentin Beunardeau has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Red Star will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Abdelsamad Hachem has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Abdelsamad Hachem has written the date down.
In brief
- The dugout Bradley Danger knocks on the manager's door
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at Red Star
- The dugout Enzo Legrix keeps his manager's vote