The Red Star Courier
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Damien Durand runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bradley Danger breaks a bone — 58 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Balthazar Pierret stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Balthazar Pierret and Red Star agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gaëtan Poussin in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Damien Durand sends Red Star past Valenciennes
It finished 2‑1, and it was Damien Durand’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Red Star.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Théo Magnin
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nobody at Red Star has picked up the phone to Leonardo Buta
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Pape Meïssa Bâ stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the Red Star support went home talking about one name.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Islamdine Halifa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Market Red Star sign Benoît Garcia, one for the future
- Market Red Star sign Guillaume Lefebvre, one for the future
- Market Red Star buy the years ahead of Thibault Arnaud