Lorenzo Hounon

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Process

Marked for Lorenzo Hounon

191 Edition

The Stade Lavallois Courier

25 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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 dugout

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

Back issues
159 Edition

The Stade Lavallois Courier

13 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Mathys Houdayer runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Mamadou Samassa stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Evan Bouttier agrees terms with Red Star

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Stade Lavallois people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Evan Bouttier 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.

The dugout

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Squad

Lorenzo Hounon is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stade Lavallois

Julien Maggiotti and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Jules Gaudin 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Massamba N'Diaye

Stade Lavallois asked and Clermont Foot said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief