Tyris Dong

Striker - Dijon
14 Mar 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Tyris Dong

63 Edition

The Dijon Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Dijon boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Player ratings

Kamory Doumbia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Adama Sarr is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dijon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Dijon

Jordan Marié 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

Paul Delecroix gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

A bad afternoon for Dijon against Valenciennes

0‑1 to Valenciennes, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Kamory Doumbia is carrying Dijon

6 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Tyris Dong signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tyris Dong commits to Dijon for another 4 years.

The terraces

Everybody has an opinion about Javi Martón

He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The Dijon Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Nacim Dendani says Dijon went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

The wait goes on for Dijon

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ben Chayeel Hamada

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Paul Delecroix 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 Dijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lenny Lacroix

“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.

Squad

Nolan Tabar stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nolan Tabar and Dijon agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Dijon buy the years ahead of Antoine Poirier

He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

A long bet from Dijon on Émile Garcia

He is 15, and nobody at Dijon signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market

Dijon sign Yann Chevalier, one for the future

Yann Chevalier is 17, and Dijon have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

54 Edition

The Dijon Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Clinton Mata says Dijon went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Jordan Marié 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 Dijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Paul Delecroix

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Delecroix, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Dijon against Stade Lavallois

0‑1 to Stade Lavallois, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Léo Tremblay signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Léo Tremblay and Dijon agree another 4 years.

Player ratings

Yanis Barka runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

The one thing Tyris Dong could not do

Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Market

Still no ink between Dijon and Adama Sarr

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dijon, another week without a signature from Adama Sarr.

Market

Dijon put Sergio Rodríguez up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Sergio Rodríguez may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

49 Edition

The Dijon Gazette

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Lenny Lacroix puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dijon, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Dijon

Jordan Marié 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

Tyris Dong signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tyris Dong commits to Dijon for another 5 years.

In brief

8 Edition

The Dijon Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Dijon's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dijon has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Dijon sink to position 13

3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

Dijon out of the cup

Angers SCO ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Julien Domingues

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Dijon

Pablo Insua 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

No hiding place for Paul Delecroix

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Delecroix, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ben Chayeel Hamada

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.75, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Dijon count the cost of losing Tyris Dong

31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

Ben Chayeel Hamada rescues a point for Dijon

It needed Ben Chayeel Hamada to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Sochaux, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief