Kenzo Cotten

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
14 Feb 2030
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The AJ Auxerre Sentinel

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Clément Akpa agrees terms with Olympique de Marseille

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

Squad

Benjamin Jeannot breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Transfer targets

Filippo Manfrin is a medical away from AJ Auxerre

The deal with Monaco is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Market

Kenzo Cotten 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 The request is on a desk at AJ Auxerre, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Josué Casimir wants more than AJ Auxerre 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.

Squad

Words at AJ Auxerre training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Axel Tuanzebe 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.

Squad

Youssef Khoudda signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Youssef Khoudda commits to AJ Auxerre for another 4 years.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the AJ Auxerre dugout

10 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Charles Abi

AJ Auxerre asked and KV Oostende said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief