Tex Tecassala

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15 Nov 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Tex Tecassala

9 Edition

The AS Nancy Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Tex Tecassala out for 14 days

14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AS Nancy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Zakaria Fdaouch keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AS Nancy may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Salis Abdul Samed delivers — 7.78

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Salis Abdul Samed scored, was marked 7.78, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad

Real improvement from Victor Orakpo at AS Nancy

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Victor Orakpo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Justin Bourgault

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Salis Abdul Samed sends AS Nancy past ESTAC Troyes

It finished 2‑0, and it was Salis Abdul Samed’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AS Nancy.

Squad

Jérémy Gélin 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.

Squad

A falling-out at AS Nancy

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Justin Bourgault

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The AS Nancy Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tex Tecassala

21 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AS Nancy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The cup run ends for AS Nancy

0‑2 against Rodez AF, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Martin Sourzac stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Player ratings

Victor Orakpo, 20, steals the show — 7.97

Marked 7.97 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Squad

Tempers go at AS Nancy

Walid Bouabdeli 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.

Player ratings

Justin Bourgault beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

AS Nancy rebuffed over Sotiris Alexandropoulos

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sporting CP have kept their man, and AS Nancy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

AS Nancy see off Clermont Foot

Three points for AS Nancy, 2‑1 the final word against Clermont Foot in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

One of their own: Victor Orakpo

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief