The FC Nantes Sentinel
Squad4 Sep 2028
A one-man rearguard from Alban Lafont
There were 11 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 ratings4 Sep 2028
Nothing got past Johann Lepenant
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 37 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match2 Sep 2028
FC Nantes make home a hard place to visit
15 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Oliver Sørensen says FC Nantes went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market4 Sep 2028
Matheus Alexandre hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Nantes can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Sep 2028
Only the photograph left for Florian Sotoca
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Florian Sotoca will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FC Nantes the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
A defender's afternoon for Oliver Sørensen
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market4 Sep 2028
Nabil Fekir wants more than FC Nantes are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Dehmaine Tabibou in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Nantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad Real improvement from Patrick Sanchez at FC Nantes
- Match Still nobody has beaten FC Nantes
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Louis Leroux