Marked for Benoît Carpentier
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad19 Feb 2029
Paul Roussel: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Stade Brestois have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Feb 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Stade Brestois this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Feb 2029
He is 19, and nobody at Stade Brestois signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match26 Aug 2028
0‑1, and no way to dress it up. A derby defeat follows a supporter to work on Monday, and this one will follow him all week.
Squad28 Aug 2028
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad28 Aug 2028
The medical room confirms 69 days on the sidelines for Dominik Greif, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Pavel Šulc in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympique Lyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market28 Aug 2028
Clermont Foot are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Olympique Lyonnais will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Cho Gue-Sung 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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Market28 Aug 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Olympique Lyonnais know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.