The Chamois Niortais Herald
Market7 Sep 2026
Jean Lambert has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chamois Niortais they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market7 Sep 2026
Alexandre Gautier 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 The request is on a desk at Chamois Niortais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tom Wooster gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Tom Wooster has just signed for Chamois Niortais, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Julien Ménard 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Riccardo Testa 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Chamois Niortais 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.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Chamois Niortais and Tom Wooster
- Market Tom Wooster joins Chamois Niortais to strengthen the squad