The Chamois Niortais Herald
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Chamois Niortais
Mathieu Royer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gabriel Cousin is the month’s best young player
At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Chamois Niortais will try not to make too much of it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Richard 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The month belongs to Joseph Richard
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Chamois Niortais have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
$2.2M on the table at Chamois Niortais
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Paul Maisonneuve
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Jacques Vasseur 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 Jacques Vasseur is on it.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Jacques Vasseur talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Chamois Niortais know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market7 Dec 2026
Chamois Niortais put Gaël Nlundulu up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Gaël Nlundulu may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- The dugout Jean-Luc Roche asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead An away day at US Creteil next for Chamois Niortais
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Dominique Simon