The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Romain Faivre
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Oussama El Azzouzi at his very best
Marked 8.90. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AJ Auxerre.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Francisco Sierralta 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Aaron Issumo counts the days
“I watch every AJ Auxerre game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at RC Strasbourg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Francis Coquelin dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match12 Sep 2026
AJ Auxerre and Stade Rennais take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Squad Josué Casimir knocks on the manager's door
- Squad A first senior shirt for Nime Sacko
- Market The window shut and Bryan Okoh is still in the building