The Dijon Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Dijon make Amadou Soumaré the dearest name in their history
$1.6M. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Julien Domingues
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Paul Delecroix 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 Dijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Dijon
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 terraces17 Aug 2026
Dijon spend $1.6M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.6M for Amadou Soumaré, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jordan Marié 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Dijon cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Gabriel Giraud joins the Dijon first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Giraud is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dijon promote Émile Lambert from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Émile Lambert 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 Dijon promote Laurent Giraud from within
- Squad Amadou Soumaré gets it from the manager
- Boardroom Dijon turn down the training-ground plan