Jean Benoit

Striker - Stade Brestois
9 Aug 2029
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109 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Aug 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ludovic Ajorque

111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stade Brestois lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match26 Aug 2028

No end in sight to Stade Brestois's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stade Brestois has to find a result from somewhere.

Player ratings28 Aug 2028

Brendan Chardonnet, 33, rolls back the years — 8.46

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.46 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market28 Aug 2028

NK Maribor come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Stade Brestois did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Ludovic Ajorque 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 Stade Brestois this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Jean Benoit is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Brendan Chardonnet 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.

Player ratings28 Aug 2028

Mama Baldé 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.

Match26 Aug 2028

Stade Rennais take the points off Stade Brestois

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

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61 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad27 Sep 2027

A fracture rules Ludovic Ajorque out for 116 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stade Brestois will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Kamory Doumbia runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Jean Benoit is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Stade Brestois training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brendan Chardonnet 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.

Match25 Sep 2027

Olympique de Marseille take the points off Stade Brestois

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Stade Brestois

Lionel Mpasi 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.

In brief