Pierre Perrot

Left Forward - Metalurh Zaporizhzhia U20
10 Feb 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for Pierre Perrot

161 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

No end in sight to Metalurh Zaporizhzhia's wait for a win

18 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Denys Chervinskyi damages knee ligaments — 85 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 85 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.

Match

6 matches without a goal for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Lucas Henrique 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 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sulejman Seitkhalilov 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 ratings

Andrii Savitskyi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

No hiding place for Tymofii Machulian

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tymofii Machulian, and the manager let it.

Market

Metalurh Zaporizhzhia buy the years ahead of Pierre Perrot

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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Lucas Henrique

A mark of 7.12, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

Back issues
114 Edition

The Chamois Niortais Herald

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nicolas Lemaire

Successful dribbles: 54. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Alexandre Meyer 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.

Squad

Babacar Diallo keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chamois Niortais may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Ethan Mbappé, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

At 21, Ethan Mbappé is already the best thing here

An average of 7.20 in a first team he is several years too young for. Chamois Niortais have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Boardroom

Julien Bègue signs for Stade Brestois while still at Chamois Niortais

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Julien Bègue has agreed terms with Stade Brestois for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

Patrick Roy signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Patrick Roy commits to Chamois Niortais for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Chamois Niortais

Nicolas Lemaire 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.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Chamois Niortais

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

In brief