The Clermont Foot Courier
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yoann Salmier 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 Clermont Foot this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Business is business: Yuliwes Bellache goes
Toulouse FC paid $660.0K and Clermont Foot took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Clermont Foot
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
Words at Clermont Foot training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Famara Diédhiou 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Thomas Bertrand joins the Clermont Foot first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Bertrand is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
No place for Allan Ackra in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Allan Ackra has his answer from Clermont Foot; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Boardroom Clermont Foot turn down the training-ground plan
- Squad Nikolai Rehnen still has not settled
- Market Nikolai Rehnen joins Clermont Foot to strengthen the squad
- Squad Théo Guivarch has company in his position