The Monaco Sentinel
Squad20 Feb 2040
Vanderson damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Market20 Feb 2040
Monaco say no — this time
The offer from AS Nancy for Dro 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.
Match20 Feb 2040
Monaco up to position 2
58 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad20 Feb 2040
A one-man rearguard from Chris Brady
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings20 Feb 2040
Age has not caught Mika Biereth yet — 7.94
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.94 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad20 Feb 2040
Tempers go at Monaco
Mika Biereth 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.
Market20 Feb 2040
Only the photograph left for Emmanuel Tshibemba
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Emmanuel Tshibemba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Monaco the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match18 Feb 2040
Monaco make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Monaco have 3 straight wins of it.
Match18 Feb 2040
Monaco see off Toulouse FC
Three points for Monaco, 1‑0 the final word against Toulouse FC in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- Squad Marcel Benoit signs on for more
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Ibrahim Mbaye
- Player ratings Nothing got past Pape Cabral