The AS Nancy Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 dugout28 Sep 2026
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 ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 terraces28 Sep 2026
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.
Match26 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 ratings28 Sep 2026
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
- The dugout A satisfied Mathieu Da Silva
- The dugout No hiding place for Adrien Julloux
- The dugout Chafik El Hansar is still paying for one afternoon at AS Nancy