The Chamois Niortais Herald
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wants to play Chamois Niortais right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Michel Bertrand
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Chamois Niortais
Samuel Souprayen 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Matéo Beaslas gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Matéo Beaslas has just signed for Chamois Niortais, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Lucio Falasco wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Chamois Niortais know it.
Match9 Jan 2027
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Chamois Niortais. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match9 Jan 2027
Chamois Niortais find a way past Nimes
Nimes made Chamois Niortais work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Philippe Girard in the eights
A performance of 8.29 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Francis Kembolo 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.
In brief
- Market The Alexandre Vidal conversation is coming
- Loan watch Antoine Fournier wants to come home
- Market Chamois Niortais sign Junior Ngambi, one for the future