Mathéo Robert

Striker - Red Star
12 Nov 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Mathéo Robert

44 Edition

The Red Star Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Red Star are going up

Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.

Match

Red Star up to position 3

44 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Josué Escartin is on his way

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Red Star

Gaëtan Poussin 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.

The dugout

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Squad

A row about effort at Red Star

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dylan Durivaux was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Islamdine Halifa

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

Market

The Kévin Cabral talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Red Star know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Théo Magnin wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Red Star will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

Back issues
37 Edition

The Red Star Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Red Star

Gaëtan Poussin 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.

Market

One of our own: Michel Jacquet joins the Red Star first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michel Jacquet is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Nicolas Martinez joins the Red Star first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nicolas Martinez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Patrick Michel steps up from the Red Star academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Michel has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Émile Roger joins the Red Star first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Émile Roger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

A row about effort at Red Star

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dylan Durivaux was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Abdelsamad Hachem 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.

Squad

Samuel Junior Eto’o wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Red Star will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout

Samuel Junior Eto’o 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 Red Star, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

30 Edition

The Red Star Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Red Star

Gaëtan Poussin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Dylan Durivaux 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.

The dugout

Godson Kyeremeh 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.

Market

The Gaëtan Poussin story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Gaëtan Poussin signs something — a contract at Red Star or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The terraces

The Kévin Cabral rumours reach the terraces

What was a back-page link has become a chant, and the chant is not friendly. Red Star would rather it were settled quietly, and it has stopped being quiet.

The dugout

A door opens for Abdelsamad Hachem

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Market

Red Star put Amallah Kaloga up for sale

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

Market

The stand keeps filling up for Kévin Cabral

Somebody from LOSC Lille has seen every one of Kévin Cabral’s last few games. Nobody travels that far that often out of curiosity, and everybody at Red Star knows it.

Squad

Mathéo Robert is not doing himself any favours

A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.

In brief