The Nimes Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Nimes
Pablo Martinez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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
Words at Nimes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdelilah Hafidi 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Gabriel Marty joins the Nimes first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gabriel Marty is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Bissourou Touré gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Raymond Fournier on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Oualid Orinel 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Jared Khasa was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 12. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nimes and Chamois Niortais cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Chamois Niortais came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
In brief
- The dugout Oualid Orinel knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad A season on the outside for Abdelilah Hafidi
- Market Nimes and Zinho are talking past each other