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Uneasy
Squad18 Sep 2028
Job ter Burg : 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.” AC Ajaccio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Kenzo Cotten
“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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Noam Marchal knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AC Ajaccio , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad11 Sep 2028
Kenzo Cotten : 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.” AC Ajaccio have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“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.
Match9 Sep 2028
A 1-1 draw with Dijon leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Uneasy
Market12 Jun 2028
$2.3M. No player has ever cost AC Ajaccio more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jean-Dominique Leca commits to AC Ajaccio for another 3 years.
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
Still nobody in the AC Ajaccio dugout
11 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.
Yoni Gomis AC Ajaccio break the bank for Yoni Gomis
Squad12 Jun 2028
Kenzo Cotten 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.
Market12 Jun 2028
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AC Ajaccio will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad12 Jun 2028
A new face in his position, and Thibault Campanini suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AC Ajaccio have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Crisis
Squad17 Apr 2028
Kenzo Cotten 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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AC Ajaccio , and both men came out saying it was fine.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
10 graduates from an academy now rated 7 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
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Uneasy
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at AC Ajaccio
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A season average of 7.07 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. AC Ajaccio know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Feb 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brian Babit commits to AC Ajaccio for another 2 years.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Brian Babit 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Kévin Bérigaud knocks on the manager's door“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AC Ajaccio , and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market24 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Jan 2028
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“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.
Match22 Jan 2028
1-2 to Nimes , and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Jan 2028
The manager makes an example of Andy Delort
“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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
4 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Crisis
Match25 Dec 2027
11 matches without a win for AC Ajaccio
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around AC Ajaccio are no longer polite ones.
The terraces27 Dec 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 33 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Market27 Dec 2027
Kenzo Cotten hands in a written request“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AC Ajaccio can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Martin Sourzac , and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match25 Dec 2027
Beaten 1-3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Andy Delort 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.