The Chamois Niortais Herald
Market24 Aug 2026
Chamois Niortais turn down FC Metz for Didier Paul
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Yves Robert, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.91
A mark of 7.91 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Didier Roux 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 Chamois Niortais can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Chamois Niortais make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Chamois Niortais have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Chamois Niortais
Yves Renard 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Yves Renard
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Aug 2026
Chamois Niortais find a way past Red Star
Red Star made Chamois Niortais work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Émile Laurent was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Benoît Dufour
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
- Squad Sofian Bahloul dropped after a run of poor form
- Market The Yves Robert story refuses to die