Jacques Vasseur

Defensive Midfielder - Chamois Niortais
5 Dec 2027
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The Chamois Niortais Herald

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

No deal for Aaron Drinan at that price

Chamois Niortais offered $4.2M; Swindon Town said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market12 Jul 2027

Thibault Roux wants more than Chamois Niortais are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Thibault Roux 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.

Squad12 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Chamois Niortais

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joris Delle was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets12 Jul 2027

Door shut on Plamen Andreev

Chamois Niortais asked and Debrecen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Chamois Niortais count the cost of losing Jacques Vasseur

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad12 Jul 2027

Chamois Niortais are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout12 Jul 2027

Gabriel Dufour gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Gabriel Dufour is on it.

The dugout12 Jul 2027

Louis Renard 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.

In brief

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match1 Mar 2027

Nobody above Chamois Niortais

First, on 64 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Thibault Roux 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.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

When it matters, Yann Leclercq plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market1 Mar 2027

The Gabriel Dufour question follows Chamois Niortais around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Gabriel Dufour’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad1 Mar 2027

An aura around Lars Villiger

Where he used to play does most of his talking for him at Chamois Niortais. The room defers to it, the kids study it, and the only thing that can puncture it is a bad month.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

A door opens for Mickaël Nanizayamo

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad1 Mar 2027

A season on the outside for Jacques Vasseur

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Chamois Niortais has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Raymond Perrin asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

The manager plants his flag on Beraldo

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Beraldo’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief