The Paris FC Courier
Squad27 Mar 2028
Bruno Valdez damages knee ligaments — 96 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Paris FC
Kevin Trapp 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
Théodore Chevalier steps up from the Paris FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Théodore Chevalier 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
One of our own: Raymond Guyot joins the Paris FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raymond Guyot is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Mar 2028
One of our own: Louis Schmitt joins the Paris FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Louis Schmitt is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market27 Mar 2028
One of our own: Robert Adam joins the Paris FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Adam is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
When it matters, Luca Koleosho plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
No hiding place for Karl-Johan Johnsson
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Karl-Johan Johnsson, and the manager let it.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
Adama Camara keeps scoring at Dender
29 appearances away from home and 6 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
In brief
- Loan watch Nhoa Sangui has made ESTAC Troyes’s shirt his own
- Loan watch Vincent Marchetti has made USL Dunkerque’s shirt his own
- The dugout Omar Sissoko has been promised minutes