A 2-1 win over Stade Rennais, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Toulouse FC, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Toulouse FC have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Mário Sauer has let it be known that he does not like the way Toulouse FC are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Olympique de Marseille pay $20.8M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
The fee is $4.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. FC Nantes drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Olympique Lyonnais pay $4.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Toulouse FC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Toulouse FC that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
39 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Toulouse FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Cristian Cásseres plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
159% of the income goes out in wages at Toulouse FC
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Toulouse FC have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Toulouse FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
The terracesThe press cannot get enough of Aron Dønnum
Marcel Guyot is 16, and Toulouse FC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Guillaume André is 16, and Toulouse FC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
He is 16, and nobody at Toulouse FC signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Toulouse FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.