The Montpellier HSC Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Montpellier HSC turn down Shakhter for Junior Ndiaye
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Ouattara Moudjatovic would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ouattara Moudjatovic is living that version at Montpellier HSC, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Montpellier HSC
2 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Diego Coppola
Montpellier HSC asked and Paris FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Michel Deschamps joins the Montpellier HSC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michel Deschamps 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
One of our own: Denis Faure joins the Montpellier HSC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denis Faure is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Montpellier HSC
Junior Ndiaye and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No place for Giuseppe Leone in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Montpellier HSC are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ouattara Moudjatovic was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- Squad Words at Montpellier HSC training over how hard people work
- Market Talks stall between Montpellier HSC and Landry Nomel
- The dugout The view from the dugout