The Sochaux Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Lorient come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sochaux did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Bendjaloud Youssouf beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Sochaux
2 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Toulouse FC tell Sochaux: Alexis Vossah is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sochaux promote Julien Benoit from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Julien Benoit 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Christophe Adam joins the Sochaux first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christophe Adam is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Appearance number 200 for Julien Masson
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kapit Djoco in the eights
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match15 Aug 2026
Sochaux rescue it on 94 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 94. AC Ajaccio had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
In brief
- Transfer targets Sochaux try to borrow Moctar Diop
- Match Sochaux and AC Ajaccio take a point apiece
- The dugout Stéphane André: “We have to be better”