The Paris FC Courier
Squad23 Jul 2029
34 days out for Hamari Traoré after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Paris FC will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market23 Jul 2029
Francesco Folino 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 The request is on a desk at Paris FC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market23 Jul 2029
Terms done: Yannis Clementia is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and US Concarneau waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Paris FC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market23 Jul 2029
Paris FC say no — this time
The offer from FC Rouen for Mathys Tourraine 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.
Squad23 Jul 2029
A falling-out at Paris FC
Pierre Lees-Melou and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Jul 2029
No place for Pierre Lees-Melou in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Pierre Lees-Melou has his answer from Paris FC; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
Door shut on Youssouf Ndayishimiye
Paris FC asked and Paris Saint-Germain said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Paris FC count the cost of losing Sacha Bernard
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Paris FC are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Kevin Trapp gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Otávio knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Hamidou Keyta has been promised minutes