The EA Guingamp Post
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
EA Guingamp rebuffed over Sambou Soumano
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FC Lorient have kept their man, and EA Guingamp go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
EA Guingamp spend $5.5M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $5.5M has been paid because Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Jérémy Hatchi, 21, steals the show — 8.03
Marked 8.03 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Adrien Tamèze goes up and wins it — 7.92
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.92 for the rest of it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $260.0K for Telli Siwe
EA Guingamp have gone to AJ Auxerre 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
Tempers go at EA Guingamp
Donatien Gomis was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at EA Guingamp
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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
$5.5M for Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao, and EA Guingamp supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Serge-Philippe Raux-Yao from Rapid Wien for $5.5M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Match15 Aug 2026
EA Guingamp find a way past SC Bastia
SC Bastia made EA Guingamp work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market Daniel Renaud steps up from the EA Guingamp academy
- Market EA Guingamp promote Daniel Roche from within
- Market EA Guingamp promote Didier Poirier from within