Marked for Bissenty Gomis
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Aug 2028
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Guy Noël Zohouri is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Aug 2028
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Market14 Aug 2028
Add another name to the list: Paris FC have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Joan Tincres. The answer from Le Havre AC has not changed — yet.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Sofiane Boufal 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.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Abdoulaye Touré 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.
Market14 Aug 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Daniel Molina has his answer from Le Havre AC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market14 Aug 2028
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout14 Aug 2028
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market7 Aug 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Le Havre AC have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Aug 2028
The offer from RC Strasbourg for Elysée Logbo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad7 Aug 2028
The step up is real for Mika Godts
At 23 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Felix Mambimbi 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
At 26 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rassoul Ndiaye was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market7 Aug 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Abdoulaye Touré has his answer from Le Havre AC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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.
The dugout7 Aug 2028
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market6 Mar 2028
The offer from IFK Goteborg for Elysée Logbo was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Felix Mambimbi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Mar 2028
An average of 7.03 in a first team he is several years too young for. Le Havre AC have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Yanis Zouaoui and Le Havre AC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Rassoul Ndiaye 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.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
“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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rassoul Ndiaye’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market6 Mar 2028
Le Havre AC have made Loïck Landre available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Loan watch6 Mar 2028
24 appearances at Hapoel Kfar Saba and the goals keep coming. Le Havre AC are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.