The Chamois Niortais Herald
Match8 Dec 2031
Chamois Niortais are in real trouble now
Position 12, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market8 Dec 2031
Ilias Sgouros 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 The request is on a desk at Chamois Niortais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Words exchanged at Chamois Niortais
Alexandre Pierre 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.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Words at Chamois Niortais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacques Lefèvre 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.
Looking ahead8 Dec 2031
Everything rides on US Creteil
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Chamois Niortais know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
Squad8 Dec 2031
A place in the month's best eleven for Hervé Lefebvre
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Hervé Lefebvre has come out of that comparison in the side, and Chamois Niortais have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad8 Dec 2031
Brayan Marín still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Chamois Niortais would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market8 Dec 2031
The Hugo Kissanga story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hugo Kissanga signs something — a contract at Chamois Niortais or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout8 Dec 2031
Jaheden Rocolat Delmas knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jaheden Rocolat Delmas trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Feydji Vienne
- Market Philippe Thomas leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Chamois Niortais production line keeps running