The US Boulogne Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Patrick Ouotro will not be coming to US Boulogne
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Vitoria Guimaraes is saying, and nobody at US Boulogne is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Sofian Bahloul
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at US Boulogne
Sofian Bahloul and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Stade Brestois tell US Boulogne: Mamady Diambou is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
US Boulogne promote Jean Thomas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jean Thomas 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
US Boulogne promote Jacques Caron from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacques Caron 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: Jacques Garcia joins the US Boulogne first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jacques Garcia 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
Gabriel Rousseau steps up from the US Boulogne academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gabriel Rousseau has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Guy Noël Zohouri is in the works
US Boulogne have made the call to Le Havre AC. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Player ratings Noah Fatar takes the honours
- The dugout Pierre Perrot on the point
- Match Point won or two lost for US Boulogne?