The FC Annecy Courier
Squad10 Feb 2031
The knee: Toby Savin out for 49 days
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Annecy lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match8 Feb 2031
FC Annecy make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now FC Annecy have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Words exchanged at FC Annecy
Loup-Diwan Guého 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.
Transfer targets10 Feb 2031
Too dear: FC Annecy walk away from Jovite Mvucani
$320.0K was the most the club would pay and Sochaux were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match8 Feb 2031
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for FC Annecy. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad10 Feb 2031
Words at FC Annecy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matt Turner 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.
Transfer targets10 Feb 2031
FC Annecy rebuffed over Giovanni Reyna
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris Saint-Germain have kept their man, and FC Annecy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match8 Feb 2031
Quentin Ndjantou sends FC Annecy past AS Nancy
It finished 1‑0, and it was Quentin Ndjantou’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Annecy.
Player ratings10 Feb 2031
A masterclass from Quentin Ndjantou
Marked 8.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Squad A muscle injury and 15 days out for Philippe Robert
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Player ratings Brian Bayeye beats them one at a time