Malick Diop

Central Midfielder - Rodez AF
15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Malick Diop

1 Edition

The Rodez AF Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Evan's Jean-Lambert stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Evan's Jean-Lambert and Rodez AF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Rodez AF

Quentin Braat 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Rodez AF

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

Player ratings

Hermann Tebily was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ranjan Neelakandan

Rodez AF asked and FC Annecy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Nobody at Rodez AF has picked up the phone to Evan's Jean-Lambert

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Transfer targets

Rodez AF ask about Bilal Nadir

A loan enquiry to Hamburger SV: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jorthy Mokio is in the works

Rodez AF have made the call to Ajax. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Malick Diop is in the works

Rodez AF have made the call to USL Dunkerque. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The USL Dunkerque Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Lenny Dziki, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.80

A mark of 7.80 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Enzo Bardeli stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Enzo Bardeli and USL Dunkerque agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

USL Dunkerque bid $350.0K for Uroš Radaković

The offer went to FC Nantes this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Thomas Robinet 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 USL Dunkerque this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Timothée Kolodziejczak

USL Dunkerque asked and Paris FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Vincent Sasso 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.

Market

Eyes on Malick Diop again

The phone has started ringing about Malick Diop again, and this time the name on the line is Rodez AF. USL Dunkerque are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Talks stall between USL Dunkerque and Vincent Sasso

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Transfer targets

USL Dunkerque try to borrow Ivo Mammini

Gimnasia La Plata have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief