Cheick Kanté

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The Stade Brestois Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

Olivier Lemoine is out at Stade Brestois

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Boardroom5 Jul 2027

Frédéric Fontaine takes charge at Stade Brestois

“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Bradley Locko signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bradley Locko commits to Stade Brestois for another 4 years.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Stade Brestois lose Kenny Lala

50 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market5 Jul 2027

Stade Brestois sell Noé Verron for $640.0K

Noé Verron has left for AS Nancy in a $640.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market5 Jul 2027

Stade Lavallois watching Daouda Guindo

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Stade Brestois have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Stade Brestois lose Cheick Kanté

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad5 Jul 2027

The manager makes an example of Lucas Tousart

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market5 Jul 2027

Mama Baldé linked with a move away

The name of Mama Baldé keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Stade Brestois say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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45 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Stade Brestois go down

It is arithmetic now, and the arithmetic is done. A summer of hard questions starts early at Stade Brestois, and next season's fixture list reads very differently.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

Olivier Lemoine has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Stade Brestois can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Grégoire Coudert says Stade Brestois went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market7 Jun 2027

RC Strasbourg come back empty-handed

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

Market7 Jun 2027

Bradley Locko wants more than Stade Brestois are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Stade Brestois lose Kenny Lala

82 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Cheick Kanté out for 52 days

The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Cheick Kanté, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Mathis Lainé stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mathis Lainé and Stade Brestois agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market7 Jun 2027

Luck Zogbé is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Stade Brestois has been clear about where Luck Zogbé stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief