The Chamois Niortais Herald
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Yves Robert runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Didier Paul is carrying Chamois Niortais
13 goals and a season average of 7.26. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match28 Nov 2026
Chamois Niortais make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match28 Nov 2026
Chamois Niortais get the job done against Dijon
A 1‑0 win over Dijon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Home is on Máximo Seggio's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Chamois Niortais are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Didier Paul was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Benoît Roussel
“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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The Yves Robert talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Chamois Niortais know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Loan watch 5 goals on loan for Benoît Marchal
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Yves Renard