The Red Star Courier
Squad5 Jul 2027
A fracture rules Ibrahim Bakayoko out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Red Star will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market5 Jul 2027
Angers SCO watching Kévin Cabral
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Red Star have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market5 Jul 2027
Josué Escartin 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 Red Star can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Red Star
Gaëtan Poussin 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Real improvement from Lucas Besson at Red Star
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Lucas Besson is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Islamdine Halifa 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Red Star rebuffed over Jordan James
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Stade Rennais have kept their man, and Red Star go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market5 Jul 2027
One of our own: Julien Joly joins the Red Star first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Julien Joly is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market5 Jul 2027
One of our own: Benoît Michel joins the Red Star first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Benoît Michel is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Pierre Lemonnier
- Transfer targets A loan move for Riccardo Tonin is in the works
- Boardroom Intake day at the Red Star academy