Striker - Nimes
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The Nimes Herald

13 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Nimes spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

David Teles has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nimes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

Malone Grailard says Nimes 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.

Market

Stade Lavallois watching Andrew Jung

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nimes have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market

Abdelhadi Riah 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 Nimes can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Nimes make their move for Simone Scuffet

$160.0K on the table at Monaco. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A move a squad player 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. a squad player is living that version at Nimes, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom

Still no name above the door at Nimes

Day 12 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Transfer targets

Nimes rebuffed over Youssef Khoudda

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RC Strasbourg have kept their man, and Nimes go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Jared Khasa
  • Squad Words at Nimes training over how hard people work
  • Squad Words exchanged at Nimes