The RC Strasbourg Gazette
Squad20 Aug 2029
Max Maréchal damages knee ligaments — 34 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 34 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
Abakar Sylla keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” RC Strasbourg may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Reiss Nelson
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Words exchanged at RC Strasbourg
Odsonne Édouard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Andrew Omobamidele falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
7 academy players handed senior numbers at RC Strasbourg
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.
The dugout20 Aug 2029
Soumaïla Coulibaly gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market20 Aug 2029
RC Strasbourg promote Jérôme Vincent from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jérôme Vincent 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.
Market20 Aug 2029
Antoine Brun steps up from the RC Strasbourg academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Antoine Brun 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 Mathieu Lefebvre steps up from the RC Strasbourg academy
- Market RC Strasbourg promote Laurent Perrot from within
- Match Olympique Lyonnais take the points off RC Strasbourg