The Paris FC Courier
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Vincent Marchetti
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Paris FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Aug 2027
Paris FC sell Sofiane Alakouch for $3.0M
Sofiane Alakouch has left for FC Nantes in a $3.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Paris FC
Ilan Kebbal 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Lassine Sinayoko has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Paris FC can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Paris FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Moses Simon 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Paris FC lose Noah Hamed
58 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market2 Aug 2027
Experience through the door at Paris FC
Martin Sourzac arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market2 Aug 2027
Experience through the door at Paris FC
Costinha arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Didier Perrot has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Paris FC 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.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Redouane Halhal
- The dugout Martin Sourzac knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Pierre Lees-Melou keeps his manager's vote