Marcel Blanchard

Left Wingback - Chamois Niortais
12 Dec 2026
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Marked for Marcel Blanchard

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Didier Guillot: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Chamois Niortais have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Marcel Blanchard

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Chamois Niortais

Olivier Julien and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Thomas Nguyen beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match3 Oct 2026

Bruno Guérin sends Chamois Niortais past Valenciennes

It finished 1‑0, and it was Bruno Guérin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Rémy François stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rémy François and Chamois Niortais agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Yann Marty 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Bruno Guérin in the eights

A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Alexandre Duval kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match15 Aug 2026

Louis Duval leads the rout of Bourg-Peronnas

4‑0, and Louis Duval took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Chamois Niortais tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Louis Duval scores twice — 9.17

Two goals and a mark of 9.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais baulk at the price for Ousmane Camara

Angers SCO wanted more than $10.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market17 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais may not be able to give Stéphane Meunier what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Stéphane Meunier wants continental football; whether Chamois Niortais can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Olivier Julien 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Chamois Niortais

3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yann Marty 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 ratings17 Aug 2026

Thomas Nguyen was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Chamois Niortais supporters have found a favourite in Marcel Blanchard

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Marcel Blanchard has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief