Erick Ochoa

Central Midfielder - Le Puy Foot 43
21 Aug 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Erick Ochoa

67 Edition

The Le Puy Foot 43 Courier

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Le Puy Foot 43's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Le Puy Foot 43 has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Moussa Faty 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 Le Puy Foot 43 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Le Puy Foot 43 training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Devenish 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.

The dugout

Matis Carvalho gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Le Puy Foot 43 come up short against FC Rouen

FC Rouen left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Home is on Erick Ochoa's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Le Puy Foot 43 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Cristian Devenish

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Le Puy Foot 43 told Cristian Devenish something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad

Le Puy Foot 43 are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Rémi Rivière left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

Back issues
58 Edition

The Le Puy Foot 43 Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Karim Boutera arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Karim Boutera has, at Le Puy Foot 43, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Boardroom

Le Puy Foot 43 close the window on a squad of their own making

10 in and 10 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

A falling-out at Le Puy Foot 43

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

Squad

A row about effort at Le Puy Foot 43

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Farès Bahlouli was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Yannick Pandor

Le Puy Foot 43 asked and RC Lens said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Louis Collet stays at AJ Auxerre as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Le Puy Foot 43 will try again when the window opens; AJ Auxerre may not be selling by then.

The dugout

No hiding place for Axel Darnaud

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Axel Darnaud, and the manager let it.

Squad

The formation has left Karim Boutera behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Le Puy Foot 43 will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Market

A long bet from Le Puy Foot 43 on Roman Prischepov

He is 20, and nobody at Le Puy Foot 43 signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief