The Chamois Niortais Herald
Squad13 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Pons
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chamois Niortais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market13 Sep 2027
Felipe Preis puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Chamois Niortais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Felipe Preis 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Chamois Niortais
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Théo Ramousse at Chamois Niortais
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Théo Ramousse is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Frédéric Michel 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Chamois Niortais cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Rémi Lopez
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Sep 2027
A bad afternoon for Chamois Niortais against Paris Saint-Germain
0‑1 to Paris Saint-Germain, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Market The Denis Simon story refuses to die
- Player ratings Benoît Durand never got going
- Player ratings Édouard Garcia never got going