The Sochaux Courier
Market21 Aug 2028
Lenny Vallier asks to leave Sochaux
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market21 Aug 2028
Terms done: Nordan Mukiele is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Chamois Niortais waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Sochaux is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Tiago Morais beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
The paperwork begins on Salis Abdul Samed
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Sochaux have done the hard part with OGC Nice, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Match19 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, Sochaux do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Sochaux
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Sochaux rebuffed over Lionel Mpasi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris FC have kept their man, and Sochaux go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market21 Aug 2028
Sochaux promote Vincent Denis from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vincent Denis 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Mathieu Da Silva joins the Sochaux first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathieu Da Silva is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Sochaux find a way past AC Ajaccio
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Moussa Dembélé at his very best
- Squad Mohamed Ben Fredj wants to go home