The SC Bastia Chronicle
Market16 Aug 2032
Luca Tuijai Mondellini puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at SC Bastia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2032
An offer of $2.1M for Dehmaine Tabibou
SC Bastia have gone to Olympique Lyonnais with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market16 Aug 2032
Rohat Matyar is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at SC Bastia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2032
Ilan Jourdren due for a SC Bastia medical
Everything agreed with Stade Brestois, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad16 Aug 2032
A falling-out at SC Bastia
Jules Collet and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Aug 2032
A row about effort at SC Bastia
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zsombor Gruber was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2032
SC Bastia rebuffed over Pablo Pagis
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Monaco have kept their man, and SC Bastia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad16 Aug 2032
SC Bastia lose Robert Bernard
56 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market16 Aug 2032
SC Bastia and Yassine Khalifi are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Squad SC Bastia are still strangers to each other
- Market Stade Briochin expected to open talks for Noël van Bolhuis
- The dugout No hiding place for George Paaku