The Rodez AF Gazette
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Ben Cisse says Rodez AF 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Words exchanged at Rodez AF
Anthony Rouault 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.
Squad30 Apr 2029
A row about effort at Rodez AF
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rémy Labeau Lascary was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Rodez AF lose Thomas Aubry
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Rodez AF keep their word to Alexis Trouillet
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad30 Apr 2029
6 new faces, and Rodez AF are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout30 Apr 2029
Samy Benchamma gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Samy Benchamma is on it.
Market30 Apr 2029
The Rémy Labeau Lascary story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Rémy Labeau Lascary signs something — a contract at Rodez AF or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market30 Apr 2029
Nikita Jurkovskis joins Rodez AF to strengthen the squad
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Rodez AF have gone and got theirs early.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Rémy Labeau Lascary in it
- Loan watch Clermont Foot cannot leave Loni Laurent out
- The dugout Welinton Torrão knocks on the manager's door