The LB Chateauroux Sentinel
Market6 Sep 2027
Jad Koembo 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 The request is on a desk at LB Chateauroux, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout6 Sep 2027
Brahima Magassa keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” LB Chateauroux may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Deadline passes with 8 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at LB Chateauroux until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
LB Chateauroux make their move for Lukas Debuchy
$780.0K on the table at LOSC Lille. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
No thanks: Tylel Tati rejects the move
LB Chateauroux had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Monaco, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at LB Chateauroux
Samy Mahour and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at LB Chateauroux training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gaoussou Traoré is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad6 Sep 2027
LB Chateauroux lose Robert Vasseur
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Willsem Boussaid
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Willsem Boussaid has come out of that comparison in the side, and LB Chateauroux have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
- Market Gregory Kelo is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout Samy Mahour asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout Moussa Ba gets it from the manager