The Chamois Niortais Herald
Market10 Aug 2026
Julien Ménard attracts admirers
The name of Julien Ménard has come up in conversations Chamois Niortais were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bruno Blanc raises the bar for Chamois Niortais
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Chamois Niortais heard it as anything else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Julien Ménard signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Julien Ménard and Chamois Niortais agree another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Olivier Schneider 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Olivier Schneider shuts the door
Defensive actions: 23, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Market10 Aug 2026
Laurent Rémy moves on
Dijon pay $490.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julien Ménard 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Yves Chevalier
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match8 Aug 2026
Bruno Blanc sends Chamois Niortais past Sochaux
It finished 1‑0, and it was Bruno Blanc’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.
In brief
- Squad Chamois Niortais count the cost of losing Patrick Rey
- Loan watch Émile Blanc counts the days
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Bruno Blanc