Alexandre Zaouai

Attacking Midfielder (C) - SC Bastia
10 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process

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42 Edition

The SC Bastia Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

SC Bastia are in real trouble now

Position 18, 21 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Amine Boutrah 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 The request is on a desk at SC Bastia, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at SC Bastia

CJ Egan-Riley 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.

Squad

Hans Hateboer 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.

The dugout

Hans Hateboer asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Fabian Heck 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.

The dugout

The manager makes Bilel Aouacheria a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at SC Bastia. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Yahya Bathily: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one SC Bastia will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Squad

A season on the outside for Hugo Gaona

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at SC Bastia has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

In brief

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The SC Bastia Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Christophe Vincent out for 62 days

62 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. SC Bastia lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

SC Bastia are in real trouble now

Position 17, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Rominigue Kouamé 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 SC Bastia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for SC Bastia against Montpellier HSC

0‑1 to Montpellier HSC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Rominigue Kouamé

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

Stéphane Royer answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zakaria Ariss

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

The dugout

Maximiliano Freitas dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

Maximiliano Freitas knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Maximiliano Freitas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief