Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
$1.9M settles it between the clubs for Carlens Arcus
Angers SCO have accepted the money. What Paris 13 Atletico do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Paris 13 Atletico have gone to FC Versailles with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
João Vasco 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.
Olympique Lyonnais wanted more than $230.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noa Donat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympique Lyonnais have kept their man, and Paris 13 Atletico go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“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 The request is on a desk at Paris 13 Atletico, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paris 13 Atletico this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tuomas Ollila was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Paris 13 Atletico asked and Monaco said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Paris 13 Atletico, another week without a signature from Pedro Cauã.
Nobody at Paris 13 Atletico 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.
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Paris 13 Atletico can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Paris 13 Atletico can pretend not to have heard.
Everything agreed with LB Chateauroux, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Paris 13 Atletico offered $400.0K; Le Havre AC said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
João Vasco 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tuomas Ollila 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.
He is 20, and nobody at Paris 13 Atletico signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Paris 13 Atletico have done the hard part with Paris FC, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
$62.0K settles it between the clubs for Giani Carbone
Montpellier HSC have accepted the money. What Paris 13 Atletico do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Paris 13 Atletico offered $16.0K; SM Caen said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Noa Donat 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.
Arnold Temanfo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
The dugoutMarvin Gakpa asks for a word with the manager