The Monaco Sentinel
Market28 Feb 2028
Orlando Gill asks to leave Monaco
“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.
Match26 Feb 2028
Monaco make home a hard place to visit
11 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.
Market28 Feb 2028
One of our own: Paul Meyer joins the Monaco first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paul Meyer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market28 Feb 2028
Monaco promote Guillaume Michel from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Guillaume Michel has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market28 Feb 2028
Pierre Collet steps up from the Monaco academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pierre Collet has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Monaco
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matthis Abline was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead28 Feb 2028
The big one: Paris Saint-Germain come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Monaco will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Squad28 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Monaco
Yacine Titraoui and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
The team sheet said everything about Lukás Hrádecký
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Lukás Hrádecký.
In brief
- Player ratings Alexandr Golovin was unplayable
- Squad Monaco are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Lukás Hrádecký dropped after a run of poor form