The Le Havre AC Chronicle
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
$4.2M settles it between the clubs for Ayman Kari
SM Caen have accepted the money. What Le Havre AC do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Too dear: Le Havre AC walk away from Pablo Pagis
$11.5M was the most the club would pay and LOSC Lille were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market19 Jun 2028
Noam Obougou Jacquet says no to US Orleans
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Noam Obougou Jacquet had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market19 Jun 2028
Le Havre AC sell Elysée Logbo for $1.8M
Elysée Logbo has left for FC Nantes in a $1.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Santiago Hidalgo turns down Le Havre AC
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Olympique de Marseille keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets19 Jun 2028
Amiens SC tell Le Havre AC: Yanis Benchaouch is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Rassoul Ndiaye 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Ayman Ben Cheikh stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ayman Ben Cheikh and Le Havre AC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market19 Jun 2028
Le Havre AC bring in an old head
Paul Nardi is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market Le Havre AC sign Matteo Farronato, one for the future
- The dugout Junior Mwanga knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Ayman Ben Cheikh