The Stade Lavallois Courier
The terraces17 Sep 2029
Supporters organise against the Stade Lavallois board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom17 Sep 2029
Stade Lavallois give the job to Interim Coach
The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.
Market17 Sep 2029
Mohammad Mustafa puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stade Lavallois, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad17 Sep 2029
Words exchanged at Stade Lavallois
Mamadou Samassa 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.
Transfer targets17 Sep 2029
Alpha Kubota-Sawaneh stays at Nimes as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Stade Lavallois will try again when the window opens; Nimes may not be selling by then.
Match15 Sep 2029
Tony Mendy sends Stade Lavallois past Chamois Niortais
It finished 1‑0, and it was Tony Mendy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Stade Lavallois.
The dugout17 Sep 2029
The manager makes an example of Charles Guyot
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Sep 2029
A row about effort at Stade Lavallois
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jules Gaudin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings17 Sep 2029
Tony Mendy in the eights
A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Player ratings Ethan Clavreul beats them one at a time
- The dugout Interim Coach: “That is the standard”
- Squad Charles Guyot has had enough of the bench