The Stade Lavallois Courier
Market25 Mar 2030
Lorenzo Hounon 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.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Tempers go at Stade Lavallois
Julien Maggiotti 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.
Squad25 Mar 2030
A row about effort at Stade Lavallois
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jules Gaudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Mar 2030
Diego Ramírez wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Stade Lavallois can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
Brandon Thomas 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 Stade Lavallois, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout25 Mar 2030
The manager makes an example of Lorenzo Hounon
“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.
In brief
- Squad Lorenzo Hounon: “I am not a substitute”
- Market The shop window has Richard Helveg in it
- The dugout Diego Ramírez keeps his manager's vote