The Angers SCO Courier
Squad13 Aug 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rafiki Saïd
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Angers SCO lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market13 Aug 2029
Tadeo Polli 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 Angers SCO can pretend not to have heard.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Angers SCO
Owen Kouassi 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.
Boardroom13 Aug 2029
Angers SCO still without a manager
12 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.
Transfer targets13 Aug 2029
Angers SCO rebuffed over Harry Wilson
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Chelsea have kept their man, and Angers SCO go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market13 Aug 2029
Angers SCO promote Alexandre Meunier from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexandre Meunier 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.
Market13 Aug 2029
One of our own: Denis David joins the Angers SCO first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denis David is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Aug 2029
Angers SCO promote Alexandre Guillaume from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexandre Guillaume 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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tommaso Pobega 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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Lilian Raolisoa
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Angers SCO
- Transfer targets Angers SCO ask about Ruben Loftus-Cheek