Nessim Rahmani

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
24 Nov 2032
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Nessim Rahmani

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The US Orleans Post

3 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Nobody wants to play US Orleans right now

13 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Onyia Henry

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Orleans lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

A brace, and Noam Obougou Jacquet takes the afternoon — 8.43

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Noam Obougou Jacquet provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

US Orleans are at home on the road

7 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

The dugout

Nessim Rahmani: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” US Orleans have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at US Orleans

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

Squad

A row about effort at US Orleans

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florent Sanchez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Noam Obougou Jacquet sends US Orleans past US Boulogne

It finished 2‑0, and it was Noam Obougou Jacquet’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to US Orleans.

Squad

Ronaldo Barrett reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

In brief

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The US Orleans Post

28 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Onyia Henry

128 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Orleans lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

$2.9M settles it between the clubs for Nidal Čelik

Olympique Lyonnais have accepted the money. What US Orleans do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Too dear: US Orleans walk away from Cristian Cásseres

$2.5M was the most the club would pay and Stade de Reims were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at US Orleans

Maxime Bernauer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at US Orleans training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tammer Bany 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jean-Guy Akpa Akpro

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jean-Guy Akpa Akpro, and the manager let it.

Market

The Noam Obougou Jacquet question follows US Orleans around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Noam Obougou Jacquet’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Still no ink between US Orleans and Nessim Rahmani

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at US Orleans, another week without a signature from Nessim Rahmani.

Squad

Jean-Guy Akpa Akpro: “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 US Orleans will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief