The Angers SCO Courier
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for Angers SCO
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match21 Aug 2027
Angers SCO taken apart
0‑3 to OGC Nice, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Angers SCO rebuffed over Dávid Strelec
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Middlesbrough have kept their man, and Angers SCO go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Angers SCO make their move for Ignatius Ganago
$16.5M on the table at FC Nantes. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Match21 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted Angers SCO
8 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Angers SCO can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Lilian Raolisoa keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Angers SCO may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Jordan Teze 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Angers SCO
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Angers SCO
Fayçal Konaté and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Anthony Lopes
- Market Charles Meyer steps up from the Angers SCO academy
- Market One of our own: Thibault François joins the Angers SCO first team