The FC Nantes Sentinel
Squad23 Aug 2027
Alban Lafont damages knee ligaments — 31 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Romain Amalfitano out for 15 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Nantes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match21 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten FC Nantes
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Market23 Aug 2027
Yoann Court 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 The request is on a desk at FC Nantes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Herba Guirassy is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at FC Nantes
Johann Lepenant was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Nantes
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.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Louis Aubert joins the FC Nantes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Louis Aubert is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Édouard Gérard joins the FC Nantes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Édouard Gérard 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 One of our own: Philippe André joins the FC Nantes first team
- Boardroom A promise the FC Nantes board did not keep
- Player ratings Matthis Abline was the difference for FC Nantes