The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Market6 Nov 2028
Lasso Coulibaly wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at AJ Auxerre hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Axel Tuanzebe 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 AJ Auxerre this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The step up is real for Iván Silva
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Marcelo Meli stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcelo Meli and AJ Auxerre agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings6 Nov 2028
Theo Bair beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
No hiding place for Danley Jean-Jacques
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Danley Jean-Jacques, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Juan Muñóz wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and AJ Auxerre know it.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
When it matters, Clément Akpa plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
Somebody else is better right now than Donovan Léon
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- The dugout Émile Le Gall: “We have to be better”
- Market AJ Auxerre bring in an old head
- Market The Clément Akpa question follows AJ Auxerre around