The Nimes Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Nimes
Nicolas Cozza 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Axel Kedvesi at Nimes
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Axel Kedvesi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Luca Dias has improved at 27, 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Nimes against Chamois Niortais
1‑2 to Chamois Niortais, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market12 Oct 2026
Nimes promote Didier Marchand from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Didier Marchand 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
Arnaud Rémy steps up from the Nimes academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Arnaud Rémy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
One of those days for Clément Depres
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Oualid Orinel
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oualid Orinel, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Nimes are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- The dugout Henri Nicolas answers for it
- The dugout Ismaël Dramé does not fit this one
- The dugout The manager makes Ismaël Dramé a promise