The Stade Rennais Courier
Match17 Aug 2030
6 matches without a win for Stade Rennais
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Stade Rennais are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Aug 2030
6 matches without a goal for Stade Rennais
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Tempers go at Stade Rennais
Breel Embolo 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.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Boukary Coulibaly is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Yassir Zabiri 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.
Boardroom19 Aug 2030
Graduation day at Stade Rennais
8 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.
Market19 Aug 2030
One of our own: Mathieu Fleury joins the Stade Rennais first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mathieu Fleury is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Aug 2030
One of our own: Roger Breton joins the Stade Rennais first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roger Breton is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Aug 2030
Stade Rennais promote Christophe Robin from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christophe Robin 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.
In brief
- Market Arnaud Rivière steps up from the Stade Rennais academy
- Match A bad afternoon for Stade Rennais against LOSC Lille
- Squad No hiding place for Jordan James