The Chamois Niortais Herald
Market1 Feb 2027
Chamois Niortais say no — this time
The offer from OGC Nice for Arnaud Leclercq 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Marcel Renaud asks to leave Chamois Niortais
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Marc Pons
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marc Pons will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Chamois Niortais the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Chamois Niortais count the cost of losing Benoît Berger
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Marcelo Fonseca 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Benoît Berger 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.
In brief
- Loan watch Frédéric Durand wants to come home
- Squad Emanuel Pentimalli gets it from the manager
- Market Thomas Perrin linked with a move away