Roger Robert

Central Defender - Stade Brestois
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Roger Robert

4 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Luck Zogbé damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Roger Robert is a Stade Brestois player

The fee is $5.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Tours drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market

Noa Megdad Manette asks to leave Stade Brestois

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Stade Brestois — 7.22

1 for Junior Dina Ebimbe, marked 7.22, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Tempers go at Stade Brestois

Ludovic Ajorque 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

Romain Del Castillo 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.

Match

Junior Dina Ebimbe’s goal not enough for Stade Brestois

Junior Dina Ebimbe scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to AJ Auxerre, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

No hiding place for Grégoire Coudert

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Grégoire Coudert, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Kamory Doumbia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Henri Laine 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.

The terraces

Tours sell a favourite for $5.4M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Roger Robert was one of the reasons people came, and $5.4M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Tours sell Roger Robert for $5.4M

Roger Robert has left for Stade Brestois in a $5.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Sébastien Petit puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tours, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Sochaux join the queue for Bruno Guillaume

Add another name to the list: Sochaux have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bruno Guillaume. The answer from Tours has not changed — yet.

Squad

No hiding place for Bruno Guillaume

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Guillaume, and the manager let it.

Squad

Émile Simon 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 Tours this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

6 new faces, and Tours 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.

Match

Tours share the spoils with AS Nancy

A 1‑1 draw with AS Nancy leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

2 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Tours say no — this time

The offer from Valenciennes for Didier Denis was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Paris FC watching Roger Robert

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

Squad

Didier Denis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Didier Denis and Tours agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Tours

Didier Denis 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

Roger Robert 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.

Squad

Gabriel Dupuis knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tours, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Market Tours bring in an old head
  • Market Émile Simon told to find a new club
  • The terraces Supporters make their feelings known about Roger Robert