The Valenciennes Post
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Valenciennes
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market23 Aug 2027
Mabrouk Rouaï asks to leave Valenciennes
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Bryan Passi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Valenciennes have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Noah Nsoki at Valenciennes
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noah Nsoki is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mabrouk Rouaï 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 Valenciennes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Valenciennes
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Charles Abi has improved at 27, 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Valenciennes promote Philippe Laurent from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Philippe Laurent 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Valenciennes promote David Giraud from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Giraud 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 One of our own: Bruno Berger joins the Valenciennes first team
- Match Valenciennes come up short against Dijon
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Noah Nsoki