Owen Méndez

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Valenciennes
11 Mar 2029
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Marked for Owen Méndez

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The Valenciennes Post

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match2 Dec 2028

No end in sight to Valenciennes's wait for a win

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

The dugout4 Dec 2028

Bahliseny Fofana: 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.” Valenciennes have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad4 Dec 2028

Naoufel Zerhouni signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Naoufel Zerhouni commits to Valenciennes for another 2 years.

Squad4 Dec 2028

Tempers go at Valenciennes

Daou Diomandé 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.

The dugout4 Dec 2028

Daou Diomandé 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 dugout4 Dec 2028

Valenciennes keep their word to Daou Diomandé

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Loan watch4 Dec 2028

Nahim El Bouhmidi has seen enough of Ponferradina

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Valenciennes, and 5 appearances in 22 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout4 Dec 2028

The form table has caught Naoufel Zerhouni

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Squad4 Dec 2028

Home is on Owen Méndez's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Valenciennes are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

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The Valenciennes Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match30 Sep 2028

At last: Valenciennes win one

9 matches without a win, and then this, against Stade Briochin. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Market2 Oct 2028

Mattéo Le Delas 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 Valenciennes, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

Côme Fromager keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Valenciennes may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Words exchanged at Valenciennes

Daou Diomandé 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.

Match30 Sep 2028

Charles Abi sends Valenciennes past Stade Briochin

It finished 1‑0, and it was Charles Abi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Valenciennes.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Samir Belloumou

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

Market2 Oct 2028

Talks stall between Valenciennes and Sebastián Olmedo

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

Nobody on the pitch touched Eros Maddy

7.55, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Valenciennes had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Cristiano Di Zio stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristiano Di Zio and Valenciennes agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

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The Santos Laguna Sentinel

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market21 Jun 2027

Carlos Acevedo agrees terms with Racing Genk

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Santos Laguna people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market21 Jun 2027

Newell's Old Boys come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Santos Laguna did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad21 Jun 2027

A fracture rules Carlos Meléndez out for 52 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Santos Laguna will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market21 Jun 2027

Ronaldo Rubio 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 Santos Laguna, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market21 Jun 2027

Bruno Amione wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Haret Ortega 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 Santos Laguna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Luis Gómez stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Gómez and Santos Laguna agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Santos Laguna count the cost of losing Owen Méndez

17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Franco Pardo 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 Franco Pardo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief