The Red Star Courier
Match1 Nov 2027
Red Star sink to position 16
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match30 Oct 2027
The wait goes on for Red Star
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Gaëtan Poussin 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 Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Giovanni Haag 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.
Match30 Oct 2027
Chamois Niortais take the points off Red Star
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad1 Nov 2027
No hiding place for Pape Meïssa Bâ
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pape Meïssa Bâ, and the manager let it.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Balthazar Pierret was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Gaëtan Poussin wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Kévin Cabral keeps on missing
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
In brief
- Player ratings An afternoon Matthieu Huard will want back
- Player ratings Abdelsamad Hachem never got going
- Market Joachim Williamson placed on the list