Louis Thomas

Centre Forward - US Creteil
30 Sep 2026
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Process
Overview Personal Contract News 3 Transfers Relations Events 27 Awards 1 Matches History

Marked for Louis Thomas

6 Edition

The US Creteil Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Sep 2026

Ladji Traoré asks to leave US Creteil

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match5 Sep 2026

4 matches without a win for US Creteil

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around US Creteil are no longer polite ones.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at US Creteil

Mamadou Coulibaly 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 ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Gaël Nsombi

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at US Creteil

13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Louis Thomas

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Louis Thomas has come out of that comparison in the side, and US Creteil have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Yann Lienard

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match5 Sep 2026

No goals between US Creteil and Nimes

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Nimes will be the happier side with the point.

Market7 Sep 2026

The window shut and Nama Fofana is still in the building

US Creteil spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A brace, and Alexandre Moreau takes the afternoon — 8.76

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alexandre Moreau provided it, and the 8.76 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market31 Aug 2026

Paul Gaillard puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chamois Niortais, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market31 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais say no — this time

The offer from Sochaux for Pitbull was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match29 Aug 2026

Alexandre Moreau sends Chamois Niortais past Dijon

It finished 3‑2, and it was Alexandre Moreau’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.

Market31 Aug 2026

Business is business: Louis Thomas goes

US Creteil paid $200.0K and Chamois Niortais took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Vincent Charpentier runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Luc Rodriguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Philippe Martinez 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 Chamois Niortais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Benoît Poirier ran the game

Chances created: 8. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

In brief

5 Edition

The US Creteil Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Arsène Elogo

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Abdessalem Boujenfa puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at US Creteil, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ahmad Ngouyamsa 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 US Creteil this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Tom Louchet

At 23 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Nama Fofana 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

US Creteil sign Louis Thomas, one for the future

Louis Thomas is 16, and US Creteil have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tommy Iva 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Tom Louchet was the difference for US Creteil

Marked 7.51. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Christopher Baptista dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief