The Stade Lavallois Courier
Squad6 Nov 2028
A fracture rules Babacar Leye out for 107 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stade Lavallois will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market6 Nov 2028
Thibaut Vargas 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 Stade Lavallois can pretend not to have heard.
Market6 Nov 2028
Connor Taylor has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stade Lavallois they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Nov 2028
A falling-out at Stade Lavallois
Denzel and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Julien Maggiotti 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.
Player ratings6 Nov 2028
Lasso Coulibaly was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 18. 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
A muscle injury sidelines Samuel Gressant for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Stade Lavallois will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Loan watch6 Nov 2028
Samuel Dié has seen enough of Al-Hilal
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Stade Lavallois, and 2 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout6 Nov 2028
No hiding place for Jules Meyer
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jules Meyer, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Arnaud Laurent: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Denzel knocks on the manager’s door
- Match Stade Lavallois draw a blank against USL Dunkerque