The Stade Brestois Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
Daouda Guindo moves on
FC Nantes pay $6.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Hakim Guenouche would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Hakim Guenouche is living that version at Stade Brestois, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ludovic Ajorque 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Stade Brestois
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Stade Brestois
Bradley Locko 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Richard Laurent steps up from the Stade Brestois academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stade Brestois promote Jérôme Joly from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jérôme Joly 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Stade Brestois promote Arnaud Mathieu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arnaud Mathieu 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Stade Brestois count the cost of losing Ibrahim Kanté
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Hakim Guenouche
- Boardroom Stade Brestois spend where nobody can see it