The Pau FC Sentinel
Match29 Jan 2028
Pau FC end the wait against Le Mans FC
It had gone 27 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Pau FC rebuffed over Elias Achouri
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Angers SCO have kept their man, and Pau FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market31 Jan 2028
Steeve Beusnard 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 Pau FC can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
$400.0K settles it between the clubs for Bahliseny Fofana
FC Lorient have accepted the money. What Pau FC do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market31 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Alexandre Fernandes
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandre Fernandes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pau FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Pau FC
Anthony Briançon and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Julien Anziani 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.
The terraces31 Jan 2028
The crowd has taken to Otis Caporusso
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match29 Jan 2028
Otis Caporusso the difference as Pau FC beat Le Mans FC
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Otis Caporusso. 1‑0 against Le Mans FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Squad Pau FC count the cost of losing Arnaud Roger
- Loan watch Zoumana Diallo wants to come home
- Player ratings Souleymane Basse takes the honours