The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
AJ Auxerre sell Fredrik Oppegård for $8.6M
Fredrik Oppegård has left for Olympique Lyonnais in a $8.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market17 Aug 2026
AJ Auxerre turn down Monaco for Lasso Coulibaly
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Naouirou Ahamada goes
LOSC Lille paid $2.9M and AJ Auxerre took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AJ Auxerre
Romain Faivre 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
1 academy players handed senior numbers at AJ Auxerre
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Donovan Léon falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Aug 2026
AJ Auxerre promote Benoît Nicolas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benoît Nicolas 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
AJ Auxerre turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Mateus Pasinato
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at AJ Auxerre has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- Squad Sékou Mara has company in his position
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about André Silva