Daniel Colin

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Stade Briochin U18
1 Jul 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Colin

79 Edition

The Stade Briochin Herald

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Dialy N'Diaye asks to leave Stade Briochin

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Jassim Waazane

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stade Briochin have done the hard part with Olympique de Marseille, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Nicolas Florival rejects the move

Stade Briochin had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at EA Guingamp, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Stade Briochin

Yaël Mouanga 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.

Transfer targets

Stade Briochin rebuffed over Robin Thiland-Hérard

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

The dugout

No hiding place for Hicham Benkaid

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hicham Benkaid, and the manager let it.

Match

A bad afternoon for Stade Briochin against FC Versailles

0‑1 to FC Versailles, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Daniel Colin out for 43 days

The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Daniel Colin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Nicolas André to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

Back issues
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The Stade Briochin Herald

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yaël Mouanga damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Daniel Colin out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stade Briochin will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Yaël Mouanga 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 Stade Briochin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Léo Yobé beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Oisin Gallagher

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oisin Gallagher, and the manager let it.

Squad

Esteban Crespel signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Esteban Crespel and Stade Briochin agree another 3 years.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Nicolas André chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Stade Briochin

Sochaux top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Boubacar Diakhaby

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

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The Stade Briochin Herald

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Yaël Mouanga damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

39 days out for Daniel Colin after a fracture

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

Market

Mathias Lopes 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 Stade Briochin can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

A falling-out at Stade Briochin

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

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Salah-Dine El Mezouari

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Stan Janno

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

100 appearances for Sadia Diakhabi

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Stan Janno

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Stade Briochin told Stan Janno something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Salah-Dine El Mezouari

A mark of 7.59, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

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The Stade Briochin Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Stade Briochin

Beaten 0‑4 by Quevilly-Rouen, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

A fracture rules Daniel Colin out for 46 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stade Briochin will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

Florian Beurel: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stade Briochin have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Stade Briochin

Yaël Mouanga 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.

Squad

Josh Jeffries gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Josh Jeffries has just signed for Stade Briochin, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Youssoupha Ndiaye

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Inquest at Stade Briochin

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Loan watch

Abdoul Diaby Malick counts the days

“I watch every Stade Briochin game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Clermont Foot runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑4 Nicolas André left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

68 Edition

The Stade Briochin Herald

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Daniel Colin breaks a bone — 53 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A falling-out at Stade Briochin

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

Market

Talks stall between Stade Briochin and Malick Sylla

“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.

Looking ahead

The leaders are next for Stade Briochin

Quevilly-Rouen top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.

The dugout

No hiding place for Dialy N'Diaye

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dialy N'Diaye, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Ferley Valencia asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief