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Upbeat
Market27 Dec 2027
“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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Elisha Owusu
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Kévin Danois is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.30 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Squad13 Dec 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A season average of 7.25 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. AJ Auxerre know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Match11 Dec 2027
Monaco made AJ Auxerre work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Crisis
Squad15 Nov 2027
At 20, Marius Savidan is already the best thing here
An average of 7.14 in a first team he is several years too young for. AJ Auxerre have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match13 Nov 2027
1-2 to LOSC Lille , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
A one-man rearguard from Donovan Léon
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.
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Market1 Nov 2027
Herba Guirassy wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at AJ Auxerre hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad1 Nov 2027
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match30 Oct 2027
A 1-1 draw with Olympique Lyonnais leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“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.
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Squad18 Oct 2027
At 20, Marius Savidan is already the best thing here
An average of 7.02 in a first team he is several years too young for. AJ Auxerre have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match16 Oct 2027
Three points for AJ Auxerre , 4-3 the final word against Paris FC in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“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.
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Upbeat
Match15 Sep 2027
A 2-1 win over Dijon , and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match18 Sep 2027
Angers SCO will want this one forgotten quickly: 3-0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. AJ Auxerre were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match18 Sep 2027
Still nobody has beaten AJ Auxerre
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Lamine Sy and AJ Auxerre agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad20 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of Lamine Sy
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Saad Agouzoul asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Squad6 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation AJ Auxerre did not have in the autumn.
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Market6 Sep 2027
Elisha Owusu wants to know where this is going“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at AJ Auxerre hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. AJ Auxerre have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Match4 Sep 2027
A 2-2 draw with Toulouse FC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Noah Nadje 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.
The terraces6 Sep 2027
The spotlight tightens on Donovan Léon
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Marius Savidan knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AJ Auxerre , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad30 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match28 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation AJ Auxerre did not have in the autumn.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Donovan Léon
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Aug 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market16 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Saad Agouzoul may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A new face in his position, and Marius Savidan suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AJ Auxerre have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Squad19 Jul 2027
Marius Savidan asks for a word with the manager“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad19 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Samy Mahour
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Grégoire Defrel has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Squad10 May 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AJ Auxerre , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad10 May 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Romain Faivre has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Squad10 May 2027
Bahmed Deuff is out on the grass againHe came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. AJ Auxerre will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
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Squad3 May 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch3 May 2027
13 appearances at Queens Park Rangers and the goals keep coming. AJ Auxerre are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Squad3 May 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Squad12 Apr 2027
Aaron Issumo : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AJ Auxerre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match10 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten AJ Auxerre
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A season average of 7.30 with 4 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Squad5 Apr 2027
Nime Sacko : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AJ Auxerre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match3 Apr 2027
A 4-3 win over FC Metz , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market5 Apr 2027
“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.
Nime Sacko Nime Sacko: that is not what I was promised
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Donovan Léon
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Romain Faivre is in the form of his lifeA season average of 7.43 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad5 Apr 2027
AJ Auxerre will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Squad29 Mar 2027
5 goals and a season average of 7.37. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Stade Rennais to sit and watch. I want to come back to AJ Auxerre and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Bahmed Deuff 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.
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Upbeat
Squad8 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Marvin Senaya , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Donovan Léon and AJ Auxerre agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match6 Mar 2027
A 1-0 win over OGC Nice , earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 59 days on the sidelines for Marvin Senaya , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match6 Feb 2027
4 matches without a win for AJ Auxerre
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AJ Auxerre are no longer polite ones.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Josué Casimir commits to AJ Auxerre for another 4 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Feb 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Donovan Léon knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match6 Feb 2027
A 2-2 draw with Paris Saint-Germain leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
0-4 to RC Strasbourg , and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Théo De Percin : that is not what I was promised“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AJ Auxerre have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Sékou Mara 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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Marvin Senaya knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AJ Auxerre , and both men came out saying it was fine.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
The spotlight tightens on Clément Akpa
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. AJ Auxerre lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
22 appearances at Omonoia and the goals keep coming. AJ Auxerre are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0-1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. AJ Auxerre have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Market11 Jan 2027
RC Strasbourg pay $4.6M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Match9 Jan 2027
Three points for AJ Auxerre , 1-0 the final word against Stade Rennais in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market11 Jan 2027
He is 19, and nobody at AJ Auxerre signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad11 Jan 2027
4 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody is after Sékou Mara ’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Sékou Mara suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AJ Auxerre have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.