Evan Cideme

Striker - EA Guingamp
13 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Evan Cideme

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The EA Guingamp Post

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

EA Guingamp are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 41 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Not going: Sohaib Naïr stays at EA Guingamp

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Angers SCO had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market

Héliohdino Tavares has said yes to SM Caen

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. EA Guingamp have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings

Gautier Ott runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Sohaib Naïr puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at EA Guingamp, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

EA Guingamp baulk at the price for Mohamed Abdelmonem

OGC Nice wanted more than $2.7M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Match

8 unbeaten for EA Guingamp

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation EA Guingamp did not have in the autumn.

Transfer targets

Louis Leroux is a medical away from EA Guingamp

The deal with FC Nantes is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at EA Guingamp

Jérémy Livolant and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

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The EA Guingamp Post

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nobody wants to play EA Guingamp right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Gautier Ott was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. 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.

Squad

A falling-out at EA Guingamp

Jérémy Livolant and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Evan Cideme is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

A row about effort at EA Guingamp

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Clément Michelin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

EA Guingamp are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Match

EA Guingamp find a way past Stade Lavallois

Stade Lavallois made EA Guingamp work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Amine Bassi was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kalifa Coulibaly

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kalifa Coulibaly, and the manager let it.

In brief

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28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

EA Guingamp make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now EA Guingamp have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Diego García 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 EA Guingamp this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Evan Cideme

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Words at EA Guingamp training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amine Bassi 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.

Match

Louis Mafouta sends EA Guingamp past USL Dunkerque

It finished 1‑0, and it was Louis Mafouta’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to EA Guingamp.

Player ratings

Louis Mafouta in the eights

A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

Yann Vincent: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Market

Amadou Sagna is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at EA Guingamp has been clear about where Amadou Sagna stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Amine Hemia 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.

In brief

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14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Kalidou Sidibé keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” EA Guingamp may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Evan Cideme 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 EA Guingamp can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Real improvement from Nicolas Florival at EA Guingamp

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nicolas Florival is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

Whatever happens, EA Guingamp do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at EA Guingamp training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amine Bassi 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jérémy Livolant

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at EA Guingamp

Gautier Ott 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.

Match

EA Guingamp share the spoils with Amiens SC

A 1‑1 draw with Amiens SC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Yann Vincent on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Yann Vincent after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief