The Montpellier HSC Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kelyan Guessoum arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Kelyan Guessoum has, at Montpellier HSC, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Adrian Leon Barišić will not be coming to Montpellier HSC
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Braga is saying, and nobody at Montpellier HSC is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Montpellier HSC
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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Nordin Jackers
Montpellier HSC asked and Club Brugge said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Montpellier HSC
Jael and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Khalil Fayad
At 22 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hervé Faure steps up from the Montpellier HSC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hervé Faure 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Pierre Berger joins the Montpellier HSC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Pierre Berger 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
Montpellier HSC promote Mathieu Masson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mathieu Masson 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 One of our own: Olivier Aubry joins the Montpellier HSC first team
- Match Montpellier HSC find a way past Le Mans FC
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Khalil Fayad