The Bourg-Peronnas Sentinel
Squad19 May 2031
A fracture rules Mohamed Sylla out for 53 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Bourg-Peronnas will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market19 May 2031
Destin Banzouzi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Bourg-Peronnas they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 May 2031
Words exchanged at Bourg-Peronnas
Rayan Souici 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.
The dugout19 May 2031
Gonçalo Churro asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout19 May 2031
Mamadou Conté has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Mamadou Conté has written the date down.
The dugout19 May 2031
The manager plants his flag on Andy Pembélé
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Andy Pembélé’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Oliver Wettergren is starting to belong
- Squad Mathieu Perrin is fit again