The Chamois Niortais Herald
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Didier Dufour runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
FC Metz watching Paul Schmitt
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Chamois Niortais have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marc Morel stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marc Morel and Chamois Niortais agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Benoît Paul out for 57 days
The medical room confirms 57 days on the sidelines for Benoît Paul, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Chamois Niortais
Didier Dufour 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Gabriel Bernard sends Chamois Niortais past Sochaux
It finished 2‑0, and it was Gabriel Bernard’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Chamois Niortais.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
One of those days for Gabriel Bernard
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Da Silva in the eights
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yves Arnaud 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.
In brief
- Market Yves Arnaud is free to find somewhere else
- Market Chamois Niortais bring in an old head
- Market Chamois Niortais add cover with Farès Bahlouli