The FC Metz Sentinel
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at FC Metz
Jessy Deminguet 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at FC Metz
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Metz promote Jacques Dupuy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacques Dupuy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Metz promote Robert Guérin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robert Guérin has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at FC Metz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bradley Madjo 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
FC Metz turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The spotlight tightens on Ibrahim Cissé
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at FC Metz
Giorgi Kvilitaia has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Benjamin Stambouli has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Benjamin Stambouli keeps the shirt for now, at FC Metz's convenience rather than his own.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Bouna Sarr in it
- Market FC Metz shop where it costs nothing