The Red Star Courier
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gaëtan Poussin 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 Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tidiane Dicko-Sudrot is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jovany Ikanga stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jovany Ikanga and Red Star agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Balthazar Pierret 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Josué Escartin counts the days
“I watch every Red Star game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FC Metz runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market12 Oct 2026
Red Star bring in an old head
Rogerinho is 39 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 Mehdi Chafii leaves for nothing
- Market Aboudramane Sanogo leaves for nothing
- Market Lucas Besson leaves for nothing