The Red Star Courier
Market21 Aug 2028
Red Star turn down Angers SCO for Gaëtan Poussin
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Rayan el Miloudi at Red Star
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rayan el Miloudi is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Balthazar Pierret shuts the door
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Red Star
Gaëtan Poussin 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A late step up for Bradley Danger
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Red Star
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match19 Aug 2028
Whatever happens, Red Star do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Islamdine Halifa 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.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Nobody could get near Saïf-Eddine Khaoui
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market One of our own: David Philippe joins the Red Star first team
- Market One of our own: Benoît Guillaume joins the Red Star first team
- Market Stéphane Joly steps up from the Red Star academy