The USL Dunkerque Chronicle
Squad10 Aug 2026
Opa Sanganté damages knee ligaments — 117 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 117 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Malick Diop is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Le Puy Foot 43 waiting with a shirt. Nobody at USL Dunkerque is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Thomas Robinet signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Thomas Robinet commits to USL Dunkerque for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at USL Dunkerque
Thomas Robinet 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alec Georgen 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Uroš Radaković
USL Dunkerque asked and FC Nantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match8 Aug 2026
USL Dunkerque come up short against AS Nancy
AS Nancy left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Thomas Robinet
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Robinet, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
USL Dunkerque promote Alexandre Henry from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Alexandre Henry 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.
In brief
- Market Gabriel Girard steps up from the USL Dunkerque academy
- Market One of our own: Jérôme Leroy joins the USL Dunkerque first team
- The dugout Hervé Morin: “No excuses”