The Francs Borains Sentinel
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
An offer of $5.2M for Kelly N'Mai
Francs Borains have gone to Salford City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Boardroom26 Jul 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Francs Borains
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at Francs Borains training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Massimo Bruno 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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
AS Saint-Etienne tell Francs Borains: Noah Nadje is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market26 Jul 2027
One of our own: Yannick Hazard joins the Francs Borains first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yannick Hazard is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Jul 2027
Francs Borains promote Toby Mertens from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Toby Mertens 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Francs Borains promote Toby Mertens from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Toby Mertens 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.
Market26 Jul 2027
Francs Borains promote Dedryck Openda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dedryck Openda 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Francs Borains count the cost of losing Paul Tilloy
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at Francs Borains
- Boardroom Francs Borains board go back on their word
- Squad Naïm El Afaki signs on for more