The Stade Brestois Sentinel
Market26 Jun 2028
Stade Brestois pay Olympique Lyonnais $35.8M for a proper upgrade
Olympique Lyonnais did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $35.8M for George Ilenikhena, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Boardroom26 Jun 2028
Pressure builds in the Stade Brestois boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market26 Jun 2028
Saliou Diop 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 Brestois can pretend not to have heard.
Market26 Jun 2028
Terms done: Noah Jauny is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bourg-Peronnas waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Stade Brestois is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
Stade Rennais tell Stade Brestois: Yassir Zabiri 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.
Transfer targets26 Jun 2028
An offer of $2.8M for Joan Tincres
Stade Brestois have gone to Le Havre AC 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.
Squad26 Jun 2028
Bradley Locko signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bradley Locko commits to Stade Brestois for another 5 years.
The terraces26 Jun 2028
$35.8M for George Ilenikhena, and Stade Brestois 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: George Ilenikhena from Olympique Lyonnais for $35.8M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Market26 Jun 2028
Daniel Blanchard steps up from the Stade Brestois academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Blanchard 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.
In brief
- Squad Words exchanged at Stade Brestois
- Squad 9 new faces, and Stade Brestois are still learning each other
- The dugout Hugo Magnetti knocks on the manager’s door