David Leclerc

Left Midfielder - FC Versailles U18
6 Nov 2027
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19 Edition

The FC Versailles Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Dec 2026

The knee: Mathias Fischer out for 46 days

46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Versailles lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad7 Dec 2026

16 days out for David Leclerc after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FC Versailles will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Joshua Duffus, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.37

A mark of 8.37 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

Farès Farhi: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Versailles have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Nathan Yavorsky signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nathan Yavorsky commits to FC Versailles for another 4 years.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Nathan Yavorsky 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 FC Versailles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch7 Dec 2026

Alex Monde has seen enough of USL Dunkerque

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FC Versailles, and 4 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.

Match5 Dec 2026

FC Versailles see off SC Aubagne Air Bel

Three points for FC Versailles, 1‑0 the final word against SC Aubagne Air Bel in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout7 Dec 2026

A satisfied Théodore David

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Théodore David could afford to be generous.

In brief

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18 Edition

The FC Versailles Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mathias Fischer

54 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Versailles lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A fracture rules David Leclerc out for 24 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Versailles will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Joshua Duffus, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92

A mark of 7.92 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Up for the corner, and Mohamed Bamba delivers — 7.42

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mohamed Bamba scored, was marked 7.42, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Match28 Nov 2026

No end in sight to FC Versailles's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Versailles has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tuomas Ollila 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Djamal Moussadek 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 FC Versailles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces30 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Joshua Duffus

At 21 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.

Boardroom30 Nov 2026

Wages eat 94% of everything FC Versailles earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

17 Edition

The FC Versailles Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad23 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mathias Fischer

63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Versailles lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad23 Nov 2026

David Leclerc breaks a bone — 32 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Words at FC Versailles training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tuomas Ollila 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at FC Versailles

Djamal Moussadek 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.

Match21 Nov 2026

SM Caen take the points off FC Versailles

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Nathan Yavorsky

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nathan Yavorsky, and the manager let it.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Théodore David left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Yohan Zemoura dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Diego Renan knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Diego Renan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

16 Edition

The FC Versailles Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Nov 2026

Mathias Fischer damages knee ligaments — 72 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 72 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

40 days out for David Leclerc after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FC Versailles will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

Mathias Fischer keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FC Versailles may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad16 Nov 2026

A row about effort at FC Versailles

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tuomas Ollila was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Cédric Odzoumo 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 FC Versailles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout16 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Kurtis Chadet

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kurtis Chadet, and the manager let it.

In brief