The Chamois Niortais Herald
Market18 Jan 2027
The unthinkable, invoiced: Jacques Arnaud sold
Stade Rennais arrived with $7.6M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Chamois Niortais sell a favourite for $7.6M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jacques Arnaud was one of the reasons people came, and $7.6M does not replace that by itself.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Thomas Dumas
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Flavio Paganelli 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Paris FC watching Théodore Meyer
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Legrand 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
The run at home goes on for Chamois Niortais
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Chamois Niortais count the cost of losing Joseph Thomas
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
Pierre Charles counts the days
“I watch every Chamois Niortais game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at RC Strasbourg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
- Squad When it matters, Christophe Boyer plays
- Match Point won or two lost for Chamois Niortais?
- Market Flavio Paganelli linked with a move away