Nolan Binet

Defensive Midfielder - US Boulogne
6 Jul 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Nolan Binet

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The US Boulogne Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mathieu Muller damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

The small margins put US Boulogne out

Out, 1‑2 to Stade Rennais, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Maxence Hahn could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.54

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.54, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ousmane Ba

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

No end in sight to US Boulogne's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at US Boulogne has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

A falling-out at US Boulogne

Ivann Botella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Yanis Issoufou runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

No hiding place for Nolan Binet

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nolan Binet, and the manager let it.

Match

Ivann Botella rescues a point for US Boulogne

It needed Ivann Botella to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Stade Lavallois, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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The US Boulogne Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Mathieu Muller damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings

Gabin Capuano, 20, steals the show — 7.77

Marked 7.77 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nathan Zohoré pops up at the right end — 7.80

7.80, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Match

US Boulogne end the wait against Le Mans FC

It had gone 8 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad

Nolan Binet is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Ivann Botella 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 US Boulogne this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nathan Zohoré sends US Boulogne past Le Mans FC

It finished 2‑1, and it was Nathan Zohoré’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to US Boulogne.

The terraces

One of their own: Aurélien Platret

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Boardroom

141% of the income goes out in wages at US Boulogne

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

In brief