The Chamois Niortais Herald
Market24 Aug 2026
Jacques Berger sold, and an era ends
$1.7M from Sochaux for Jacques Berger. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alvin Arrondel
107 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chamois Niortais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Rémi Lemoine takes the afternoon — 8.48
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rémi Lemoine provided it, and the 8.48 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Chamois Niortais sell a favourite for $1.7M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jacques Berger was one of the reasons people came, and $1.7M does not replace that by itself.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mathieu Poirier attracts admirers
The name of Mathieu Poirier has come up in conversations Chamois Niortais were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match22 Aug 2026
Chamois Niortais cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Frédéric Lambert goes
Sochaux paid $45.0K 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Rémi Lemoine sends Chamois Niortais past Red Star
It finished 2‑1, and it was Rémi Lemoine’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Richard Noël
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Yves Da Silva
- Squad Chamois Niortais count the cost of losing Patrick Poirier
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Chamois Niortais