The Valenciennes Post
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Valenciennes go back to the board over Nicolas Wasbauer
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $190.0K — a club that wants Nicolas Wasbauer enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $180.0K for Nicolas Wasbauer
Valenciennes have gone to Toulouse FC with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Valenciennes
Mody Boune and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
1 academy graduates step up at Valenciennes
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Valenciennes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hicham Khaloua was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Mehdi Boussaïd was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Olympique Lyonnais tell Valenciennes: Mohamed Ouédraogo is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
Valenciennes promote Thomas Lemaire from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Thomas Lemaire 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Hicham Khaloua behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Valenciennes will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
- Market Valenciennes and Mody Boune are talking past each other
- Squad 7 new faces, and Valenciennes are still learning each other
- Market Valenciennes sign Nidal Čelik, one for the future