The Stade Brestois Sentinel
Market31 Jul 2028
Terms done: Gautier Lloris is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Olympique Lyonnais waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Stade Brestois is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market31 Jul 2028
Not going: Daouda Guindo stays at Stade Brestois
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Bourg-Peronnas had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets31 Jul 2028
Valenciennes tell Stade Brestois: Sambou Soumano is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Real improvement from Amadou Niang at Stade Brestois
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amadou Niang is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Late improvement for Moussa Diakité
At 24 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Transfer targets31 Jul 2028
Stade Brestois baulk at the price for Wissam Ben Yedder
AJ Auxerre wanted more than $16.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market31 Jul 2028
One of our own: Olivier Marchand joins the Stade Brestois first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Olivier Marchand is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market31 Jul 2028
Stade Brestois promote Frédéric Sanchez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Frédéric Sanchez 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Gautier Lloris 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.
In brief
- Squad Nando Martinez in a row with a teammate
- Loan watch Noah Jauny counts the days
- The dugout When it matters, Youness Lachhab plays