Gabriel Fournier

Left Forward - AC Ajaccio U18
12 Nov 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Fournier

12 Edition

The AC Ajaccio Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Age has not caught Riad Nouri yet — 8.27

At 41 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.27 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Wolo Leblanc Touré is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Squad

Lyes Houri 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 AC Ajaccio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of CJ Egan-Riley at his very best

Marked 9.61. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AC Ajaccio.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to CJ Egan-Riley

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

Loïc Damour shuts the door

Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Match

CJ Egan-Riley sends AC Ajaccio past Nimes

It finished 1‑0, and it was CJ Egan-Riley’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AC Ajaccio.

Squad

Nicolas Borodine 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.

Squad

AC Ajaccio lose Gabriel Fournier

32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The AC Ajaccio Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at AC Ajaccio

Lyes Houri 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sofian Bahloul

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at AC Ajaccio

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.

Player ratings

Mehdi Boussaïd in the eights

A performance of 8.81 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

Stéphane Marty steps up from the AC Ajaccio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stéphane Marty 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.

Market

AC Ajaccio promote Alexandre Meunier from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexandre Meunier 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.

Market

AC Ajaccio promote Arnaud Boyer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arnaud Boyer 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.

Market

Gabriel Fournier steps up from the AC Ajaccio academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Fournier 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andy Delort

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief