Didier Roux

Central Defender - Free Agent
21 Dec 2026
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Marked for Didier Roux

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 ratings

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

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The Chamois Niortais Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Yves Robert runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Alverca come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Chamois Niortais did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

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.

Market

Jean-Baptiste Guillaume attracts admirers

The name of Jean-Baptiste Guillaume has come up in conversations Chamois Niortais were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Charles Dupont 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.

Player ratings

Didier Paul was the difference for Chamois Niortais

Marked 7.87. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief