Patrick Leclercq

Left Midfielder - Stade Renard de Melong
28 Aug 2030
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205 Edition

The Stade Renard de Melong Chronicle

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

The paperwork begins on Édouard Sombang

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stade Renard de Melong have done the hard part with Colombe du Dja et Lobo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market1 Jul 2030

Gislain Abianda has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stade Renard de Melong they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Words exchanged at Stade Renard de Melong

Yannick Epané 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.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Malik Djibril 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.

Transfer targets1 Jul 2030

Stade Renard de Melong rebuffed over Usman Fahad

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Cotonsport Garoua have kept their man, and Stade Renard de Melong go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market1 Jul 2030

Talks stall between Stade Renard de Melong and Malik Djibril

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market1 Jul 2030

Stade Renard de Melong buy the years ahead of Patrick Leclercq

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout1 Jul 2030

When it matters, Constant Sanga plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Patrick Leclercq is a square peg at Stade Renard de Melong

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief

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151 Edition

The Nimes Herald

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad18 Jun 2029

71 days out for Clément Depres after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nimes will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market18 Jun 2029

Andreas Ulmer turns Al-Qadisiyah down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets18 Jun 2029

Fee done, terms next for Yvon Mvogo

Nimes and FC Lorient have settled on $120.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market18 Jun 2029

Bissourou Touré hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nimes can pretend not to have heard.

Market18 Jun 2029

Nimes get their man

The chase for Gentian Selmani ended with $2.0M changing hands and Olympique Lyonnais out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Boardroom18 Jun 2029

Patrick Leclercq has agreed to leave Nimes for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad18 Jun 2029

A falling-out at Nimes

Joan Tincres and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market18 Jun 2029

Paris FC expected to open talks for Joan Tincres

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Nimes will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad18 Jun 2029

A row about effort at Nimes

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Bayo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief