The FC Metz Sentinel
Match21 Aug 2027
Chastening afternoon for FC Metz
A 0‑4 beating by Stade Rennais was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market23 Aug 2027
Cristian Devenish hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Metz can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at FC Metz
Giorgi Kvilitaia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Kimi Gandziri
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Giorgi Abuashvili has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at FC Metz
5 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at FC Metz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Fischer 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Yann Da Silva steps up from the FC Metz academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Yann Da Silva 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Alexandre Deschamps joins the FC Metz first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Alexandre Deschamps is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Michel Meyer steps up from the FC Metz academy
- The dugout No hiding place for Florian Miguel
- Boardroom A promise the FC Metz board did not keep