The Chamois Niortais Herald
Boardroom31 May 2027
Silverware for Chamois Niortais
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Boardroom31 May 2027
Chamois Niortais are going up
Promotion, confirmed and mathematical, and a town that will not sleep much tonight. Whatever else this season had in it, it ends a division higher than it began.
The dugout31 May 2027
Côme Fromager says Chamois Niortais went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market31 May 2027
Daniel Muller 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.
Squad31 May 2027
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.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Chamois Niortais
Richard Morin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market31 May 2027
Chamois Niortais sign Devon Brockie, one for the future
Devon Brockie is 20, and Chamois Niortais have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout31 May 2027
Jean-Baptiste Ménard 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 Jean-Baptiste Ménard is on it.
Squad31 May 2027
No place for Devon Brockie in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Chamois Niortais are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Market The Olivier Bourgeois story refuses to die
- The dugout Laurent Rey asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Joseph Richard has company in his position