The FC Nantes Sentinel
Squad14 Jan 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ali Youssef
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Nantes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Jan 2030
Amine Gouiri leads the rout of Toulouse FC
3‑0, and Amine Gouiri took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FC Nantes tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market14 Jan 2030
Stade Rennais come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and FC Nantes did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings14 Jan 2030
Amine Gouiri scores twice — 9.02
Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Jan 2030
Idrissa Camara 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 The request is on a desk at FC Nantes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Pedro Alemañ 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.
Squad14 Jan 2030
FC Nantes lose Frédéric Faure
31 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Jan 2030
Ouattara Moudjatovic 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 Nantes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Jan 2030
Hervé Hubert: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- Player ratings Adrian Mazilu the provider
- The dugout Adrian Mazilu knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Ouattara Moudjatovic gets picked when it counts