The FC Metz Sentinel
Squad20 Aug 2029
Daniel Sannipoli damages knee ligaments — 40 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 40 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.
Market20 Aug 2029
FC Metz turn down Stade Brestois for Alpha Touré
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market20 Aug 2029
Jonathan Spedalieri 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 The request is on a desk at FC Metz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Age has not caught Habib Diallo yet — 7.98
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.98 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Leandro Andrade
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Leandro Andrade 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 FC Metz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match18 Aug 2029
Whatever happens, FC Metz do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Boardroom20 Aug 2029
Graduation day at FC Metz
13 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad20 Aug 2029
Habib Diallo 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Antoine Benoit joins the FC Metz first team
- Market FC Metz promote Édouard Rolland from within
- Match FC Metz find a way past Nimes