The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
Olympique Lyonnais come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AJ Auxerre did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy graduates step up at AJ Auxerre
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at AJ Auxerre
Sinaly Diomandé 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Roger Guillot steps up from the AJ Auxerre academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Roger Guillot 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
AJ Auxerre say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AJ Auxerre
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tony Mendy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Romain Faivre goes back to face Stade Brestois
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Romain Faivre’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and AJ Auxerre needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Igor Neves wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and AJ Auxerre have no good answer.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Home comforts ahead for AJ Auxerre
Stade Brestois, position 18, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
In brief
- Squad Josué Casimir is training like a man with a point to make
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Francisco Sierralta