The Chamois Niortais Herald
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Thomas Cousin
Successful dribbles: 55. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Both of them Bruno Mathieu's — 8.88
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nobody wants to play Chamois Niortais right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market14 Sep 2026
Luc Leroy wants more than Chamois Niortais are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Match12 Sep 2026
Chamois Niortais get the job done against US Creteil
A 2‑0 win over US Creteil, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Thomas Cousin 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nacim El Hassani 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Benoît Joly wants to come home
“I did not go to Le Havre AC to sit and watch. I want to come back to Chamois Niortais and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Chamois Niortais are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Market The Didier Lacroix conversation is coming
- Squad The manager makes an example of Nacim El Hassani
- Market Chamois Niortais borrow Seny Koumbassa