The FC Nantes Sentinel
Match12 Feb 2028
Stade Rennais end the FC Nantes run at 16
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 16 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Market14 Feb 2028
Arsène Kouassi wants more than FC Nantes are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at FC Nantes
Mousa Lukaku 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
FC Nantes promote Henri Guillaume from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Henri Guillaume 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.
Market14 Feb 2028
One of our own: Édouard Faure joins the FC Nantes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Édouard Faure is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Feb 2028
Bruno Olivier steps up from the FC Nantes academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bruno Olivier 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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A row about effort at FC Nantes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Esteban Lepaul was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match12 Feb 2028
FC Nantes come up short against Stade Rennais
Stade Rennais left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
No place for Deiver Machado on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at FC Nantes pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
In brief
- The dugout Fabien Centonze gets it from the manager
- Loan watch Alexis Mirbach has seen enough of RC Strasbourg
- The dugout Marc Meunier faces the questions