The LB Chateauroux Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Didier Julien damages knee ligaments — 43 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 43 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Gênio turns down LB Chateauroux
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Cortulua keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Khalil Ayari
LB Chateauroux asked and Paris Saint-Germain said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Richard Fontaine joins the LB Chateauroux first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Fontaine is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
LB Chateauroux promote Nicolas Michel from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicolas Michel 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Guillaume Lucas joins the LB Chateauroux first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Guillaume Lucas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
LB Chateauroux promote Marcel Roy from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcel Roy 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lassana Diakhaby 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Karl Madianga in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation LB Chateauroux are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at LB Chateauroux
- Looking ahead LB Chateauroux host SC Aubagne Air Bel