The FC Nantes Sentinel
Squad8 Feb 2038
Dehmaine Tabibou is carrying FC Nantes
15 goals and a season average of 7.66. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad8 Feb 2038
12 seasons of Enzo Mongo
35 appearances across 12 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and FC Nantes know what they have.
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
Age has not caught Matthis Abline yet — 8.40
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.40 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad8 Feb 2038
Johann Lepenant in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Nantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2038
Words at FC Nantes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Leroux 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
Ahmed Khaled in the eights
A performance of 9.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings8 Feb 2038
A masterclass from Dehmaine Tabibou
Marked 9.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match6 Feb 2038
Ahmed Khaled rescues a point for FC Nantes
It needed Ahmed Khaled to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Stade Brestois, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market8 Feb 2038
FC Metz are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. FC Nantes will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Loan Merrifield could not do
- Market Johann Lepenant linked with a move away
- Market The shop window has Leos Tupec in it