Laurent Simon

Central Midfielder - Chamois Niortais
10 Sep 2026
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The Chamois Niortais Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bruno Muller

103 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chamois Niortais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market31 Aug 2026

Business is business: Emmanuel Meyer goes

Bayern Munich paid $51.3M and Chamois Niortais took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Match29 Aug 2026

No mercy from Chamois Niortais

Dijon will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Chamois Niortais were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A day Raymond Noël will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match29 Aug 2026

Nobody wants to play Chamois Niortais right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Market31 Aug 2026

Laurent Simon 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Raymond Noël

Marked 10.00 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match29 Aug 2026

6 goals as Chamois Niortais and Dijon go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Chamois Niortais and Dijon, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marc Vidal 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.

In brief

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2 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad10 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bruno Muller

127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chamois Niortais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match8 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais tear Sochaux apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Sochaux, and it could have been more.

Squad10 Aug 2026

3 goals for Emmanuel Meyer

The match ball belongs to Emmanuel Meyer, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Both of them Yves Colin's — 8.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Frédéric Maillard, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.81

A mark of 7.81 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market10 Aug 2026

Paris FC join the queue for Marc Vidal

Add another name to the list: Paris FC have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Marc Vidal. The answer from Chamois Niortais has not changed — yet.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Arnaud Deschamps stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Arnaud Deschamps and Chamois Niortais agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Chamois Niortais

Emmanuel Meyer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Emmanuel Meyer was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief