Youssef Khoudda

Striker - AJ Auxerre
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Youssef Khoudda

8 Edition

The AJ Auxerre Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Donovan Léon decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Cup progress for AJ Auxerre

A 2‑2 win over Le Havre AC, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Tony Mendy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

A European lesson for AJ Auxerre

0‑1 against Fenerbahce. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.

Match

5 matches without a win for AJ Auxerre

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around AJ Auxerre are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

A chastening introduction for Youssef Khoudda — 5.40

It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.40 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.

Squad

Romain Faivre 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 AJ Auxerre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Real improvement from Tony Mendy at AJ Auxerre

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tony Mendy is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Clément Akpa

“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.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The AJ Auxerre Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Telli Siwe 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 The request is on a desk at AJ Auxerre, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Sochaux come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AJ Auxerre did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Théo De Percin’s move to FC Lorient falls through

The deal that would have taken Théo De Percin to FC Lorient has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to AJ Auxerre with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kévin Danois

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at AJ Auxerre

Francisco Sierralta 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

Romain Faivre 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.

Match

Toulouse FC take the points off AJ Auxerre

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at AJ Auxerre training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Assane Dioussé 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at AJ Auxerre

5 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