Yves Morin

Goalkeeper - Eibar
30 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Yves Morin

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The Eibar Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Juan Bernat 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 Eibar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

7 new faces, and Eibar are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

No place for Toni Villa in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Toni Villa has his answer from Eibar; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Eibar

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Squad

Raúl Asencio has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Eibar know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Squad

Juan Bernat has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Eibar that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Nicolas Lemaire

There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Alexandre Moreau scores twice — 8.78

Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

A debut Alexandre Barbier will not forget — 7.32

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.32 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Market

Chamois Niortais turn down Eibar for Yves Morin

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Eyes on Philippe André again

The phone has started ringing about Philippe André again, and this time the name on the line is Sorrento. Chamois Niortais are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Tempers go at Chamois Niortais

Nicolas Lemaire 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.

Match

Chamois Niortais see off Stade Lavallois

Three points for Chamois Niortais, 3‑1 the final word against Stade Lavallois in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

Chamois Niortais supporters have found a favourite in Alexandre Barbier

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandre Barbier has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Luc Rodriguez at his very best

Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Chamois Niortais.

In brief