The FC Nantes Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
Ugo Raghouber is a FC Nantes player
The fee is $2.7M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. LOSC Lille drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Nantes say no — this time
The offer from Nimes for Herba Guirassy 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at FC Nantes
Johann Lepenant 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Nantes
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market17 Aug 2026
Virtus Verona watching Tylel Tati
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Nantes have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Nantes promote Joseph Laine from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joseph Laine 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The FC Nantes debt reaches $5.7M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Louis Leroux stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Louis Leroux and FC Nantes agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at FC Nantes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yoann Chauvin 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.
In brief
- Squad Mostafa Mohamed has seen what the next man earns
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Ugo Raghouber
- Boardroom FC Nantes spend where nobody can see it