The Chamois Niortais Herald
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Ayyoub Bouaddi
Successful dribbles: 51. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A brace, and Eliezer Mayenda takes the afternoon — 8.13
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Eliezer Mayenda provided it, and the 8.13 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match21 Aug 2027
Whatever happens, Chamois Niortais do not lose
9 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Flavio Paganelli stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Flavio Paganelli and Chamois Niortais agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Marc Fontaine at Chamois Niortais
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marc Fontaine is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Chamois Niortais
Gabriel Legrand 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Gabriel Legrand has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Chamois Niortais
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market23 Aug 2027
Chamois Niortais promote Jean-Baptiste Adam from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jean-Baptiste Adam 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 Jérôme Paul steps up from the Chamois Niortais academy
- Market One of our own: Pierre Robert joins the Chamois Niortais first team
- Market Chamois Niortais promote Roger Guillot from within