The Stade de Reims Herald
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Nathan Ngoumou says Stade de Reims went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match11 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Stade de Reims
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Stade de Reims
Sergio Akieme 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Malcolm Jeng wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Stade de Reims can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Joseph Aidoo 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 targets13 Sep 2027
Door shut on Jordan James
Stade de Reims asked and Stade Rennais said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market13 Sep 2027
Marcel Bernard steps up from the Stade de Reims academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marcel Bernard 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
Stade de Reims promote Yann Dumas from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yann Dumas 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 Sep 2027
One of our own: Olivier Rey joins the Stade de Reims first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olivier Rey is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Bruno Fontaine joins the Stade de Reims first team
- Match Stade de Reims refuse to lose to Toulouse FC
- The dugout No hiding place for Malcolm Jeng