The LB Chateauroux Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Alexis Mirbach is a medical away from LB Chateauroux
The deal with FC Nantes is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Quentin Ndjantou rejects the move
LB Chateauroux had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Paris Saint-Germain, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Market10 Aug 2026
LB Chateauroux promote Charles Nguyen from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Charles Nguyen 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: Philippe Paul joins the LB Chateauroux first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Philippe Paul 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
Patrick Lambert steps up from the LB Chateauroux academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Lambert 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Raymond Laurent steps up from the LB Chateauroux academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Raymond Laurent 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.
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
Tempers go at LB Chateauroux
Yanis Chahid 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 targets10 Aug 2026
LB Chateauroux try to borrow Bradel Kiwa
Monaco have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Looking ahead LB Chateauroux host SC Aubagne Air Bel
- Squad Questions about Gregory Kelo on the training pitch