The FC Nantes Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
Maxime Dupé has been here 8 seasons
229 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Deiver Machado wants more than FC Nantes are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mostafa Mohamed signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mostafa Mohamed commits to FC Nantes for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Johann Lepenant 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 FC Nantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
Maxime Dupé is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FC Nantes has been clear about where Maxime Dupé stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sochaux join the queue for Alexis Mirbach
Add another name to the list: Sochaux have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexis Mirbach. The answer from FC Nantes has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Squad FC Nantes count the cost of losing Naim Telmoudi
- Market The clock runs on Mostafa Mohamed's contract
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Vito Mannone