The Chamois Niortais Herald
Boardroom31 May 2027
Silverware for Chamois Niortais
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Chamois Niortais are going up
Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.
Squad31 May 2027
Roger Bonnet damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market31 May 2027
Thiago Santi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Chamois Niortais can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Chamois Niortais
Thomas Roussel and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hervé Berger 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.
Squad31 May 2027
a squad player out for 18 days
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for a squad player, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market31 May 2027
Chamois Niortais buy the years ahead of Thiago Santi
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout31 May 2027
Charles Blanchard 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 Charles Blanchard is on it.
In brief
- Market The Thomas Roussel question follows Chamois Niortais around
- The dugout A door opens for Jonathan Gonçalvès
- The dugout Thiago Santi knocks on the manager's door