Robert Roger

Defensive Midfielder - Monaco
27 Oct 2041
Sunday
Process

Marked for Robert Roger

760 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

18 Feb 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jean Morin has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monaco they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Robert Roger says Monaco went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Words at Monaco training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sadibou Sané 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.

Match

Paris FC take the points off Monaco

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Tempers go at Monaco

Nacim Dendani 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Monaco dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Chris Brady has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Monaco will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ilies Belmokhtar

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

The Vanderson talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Monaco know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Monaco Sentinel

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Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Adam Mouak

51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Monaco lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Both of them Mika Biereth's — 8.69

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.69, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Mika Biereth 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 Monaco this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Thibault Denis has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Monaco they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words at Monaco training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sadibou Sané 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.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match

Mika Biereth’s goal not enough for Monaco

Mika Biereth scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑4 to Paris Saint-Germain, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings

Ilies Belmokhtar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Robert Roger signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Robert Roger and Monaco agree another 4 years.

In brief