The Monaco Sentinel
Market5 Sep 2033
Williot Swedberg 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 Monaco can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Sep 2033
Josué Casimir has said yes to LB Chateauroux
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Monaco have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market5 Sep 2033
Enzo Molebe says no to Clermont Foot
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Enzo Molebe had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Boardroom5 Sep 2033
Monaco write off $4.2M on Harrison Burrows
He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $4.2M of what Monaco paid for Harrison Burrows is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.
Market5 Sep 2033
Monaco say no — this time
The offer from AJ Auxerre for Ignacio Miramón was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom5 Sep 2033
Deadline passes with 22 signed and 47 gone
That is the business done at Monaco until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad5 Sep 2033
Warren Zaïre-Emery 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 Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout5 Sep 2033
Warren Zaïre-Emery has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Monaco will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad5 Sep 2033
A place in the month's best eleven for Williot Swedberg
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Williot Swedberg has come out of that comparison in the side, and Monaco have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody arrives at Monaco until somebody leaves
- Squad A promotion for Malcolm Jeng
- The dugout Patrick Brun gets it from the manager