The Clermont Foot Courier
The terraces28 Jun 2038
Anger at Clermont Foot spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Market28 Jun 2038
Pavel Shevchenko hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Clermont Foot can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Andrei Ciobanu says Clermont Foot 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.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Lenny Pley 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2038
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andy Pelmard is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Jun 2038
No hiding place for Kaan Mustafa Talay
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kaan Mustafa Talay, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Carlos Bravo
- Market Charalabos Avgitidis placed on the list