Marked for Jérôme Vidal
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 62 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Paris FC did not have in the autumn.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Hamari Traoré 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jérôme Vidal 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
The words a physio says slowly. 135 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Paris FC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Paris FC say no — this time
The offer from LOSC Lille for Vincent Marchetti was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Diego Coppola 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Bourg-Peronnas have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Julien Lopez. The answer from Paris FC has not changed — yet.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Paris FC will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match22 Aug 2026
Olympique de Marseille left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Paris FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamari Traoré 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Paris FC
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
143 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Paris FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Aug 2026
Toulouse FC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Paris FC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $3.3M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Tours drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stade Brestois pay $5.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Jérôme Vidal would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jérôme Vidal is living that version at Paris FC, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paris FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $3.3M sale of Jérôme Vidal
He is going to Paris FC, the club has $3.3M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Jérôme Vidal goes
Paris FC paid $3.3M and Tours took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Jacques Dubois 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stade Lavallois pay $400.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Tours
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dominique Roger has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Loan watch17 Aug 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Tours, and 0 appearances in 1 say he has earned the hearing.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandre Le Gall commits to Tours for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Jacques Dubois 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vincent Bonnet 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Gubbio will make the call about Édouard Robert this week. Tours have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Loan watch10 Aug 2026
“I watch every Tours 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.