The Stade Rennais Courier
Match18 Aug 2029
12 matches without a win for Stade Rennais
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Stade Rennais are no longer polite ones.
Match18 Aug 2029
Stade Rennais taken apart
0‑3 to Olympique Lyonnais, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Raymond Brun breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market20 Aug 2029
Damjan Đoković puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stade Rennais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Adrien Thomasson 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 Rennais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Words at Stade Rennais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yassir Zabiri 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.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
Graduation day at Stade Rennais
9 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.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Arnaud Nordin
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market20 Aug 2029
Pierre Lacroix steps up from the Stade Rennais academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pierre Lacroix has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Robert Gérard steps up from the Stade Rennais academy
- Market Marcel Paul steps up from the Stade Rennais academy
- Squad No hiding place for Jordan James