The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Market17 Jan 2028
Danny Namaso 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 The request is on a desk at AJ Auxerre, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market17 Jan 2028
Telli Siwe agrees terms with FC Fleury 91
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.
Market17 Jan 2028
AJ Auxerre say no — this time
The offer from FC Villefranche for Danny Namaso was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market17 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Jamal Gonzaga
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jamal Gonzaga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AJ Auxerre the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom17 Jan 2028
AJ Auxerre to lose Ousmane Baal for free
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ousmane Baal has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Tempers go at AJ Auxerre
Axel Tuanzebe 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.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
Door shut on Daniel Gnahoua
AJ Auxerre asked and ES Setif said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
Lasso Coulibaly was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Fredrik Oppegård falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Squad Mohamed Saliou Bangoura is a square peg at AJ Auxerre
- Transfer targets AJ Auxerre try to borrow Néstor Caicedo
- The dugout Lamine Sy gets it from the manager