Thomas André

Attacking Midfielder (L) - RC Strasbourg U18
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Process

Marked for Thomas André

67 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

RC Strasbourg do the business in Europe

1‑1. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and RC Strasbourg came through the finding-out well against AC Milan.

Squad

Joaquín Panichelli 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 RC Strasbourg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ben Chilwell 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.

Squad

Miloš Luković stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Miloš Luković and RC Strasbourg agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Julio Enciso in the eights

A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

RC Strasbourg lose Thomas André

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Point won or two lost for RC Strasbourg?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against FC Nantes? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Loan watch

Óscar Perea keeps scoring at Clermont Foot

14 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Loan watch

Óscar Perea would rather not come back

“For the first time in years I am picked because somebody wants me in the team.” Clermont Foot suits him; the awkward conversation belongs to RC Strasbourg, and the summer will force it.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The RC Strasbourg Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Still nobody has beaten RC Strasbourg

The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Real improvement from Pape Demba Diop at RC Strasbourg

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pape Demba Diop is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at RC Strasbourg

Ben Chilwell 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at RC Strasbourg

6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad

Ismaël Doukouré 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.

Squad

A late step up for Andrew Omobamidele

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Player ratings

Abdoul Ouattara runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

RC Strasbourg supporters have found a favourite in Julio Enciso

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Julio Enciso has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market

Hervé Marchand steps up from the RC Strasbourg academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hervé Marchand 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.

In brief