The Francs Borains Sentinel
Market28 Jun 2027
The unthinkable, invoiced: Lucas Lima sold
Patro Eisden arrived with $960.0K and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
A $960.0K sale, and a town that did not want it
Lucas Lima has gone, the accounts have $960.0K in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market28 Jun 2027
Théo Gécé 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 The request is on a desk at Francs Borains, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market28 Jun 2027
Almere City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Francs Borains did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Francs Borains
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noah Diliberto was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Door shut on Ryotaro Araki
Francs Borains asked and Sint-Truiden said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market28 Jun 2027
Timothy Vertonghen steps up from the Francs Borains academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Timothy Vertonghen 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.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
A loan move for Kader Yaméogo is in the works
Francs Borains have made the call to Club Brugge. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Francs Borains try to borrow Maximilian Baumgartner
Stripfing have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jovan Mituljikić
- The dugout A promise honoured at Francs Borains
- Squad A wage question at Francs Borains