Marked for Frédéric Perrin
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 Mar 2036
15 matches without a win for Red Star
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Red Star are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Frédéric Perrin damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match22 Mar 2036
Chastening afternoon for Red Star
A 0‑3 beating by Stade Lavallois was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match22 Mar 2036
Red Star are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Market24 Mar 2036
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout24 Mar 2036
Benoît Morin: 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.” Red Star have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 Mar 2036
Words exchanged at Red Star
Lorenzo Carvalho 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 dugout24 Mar 2036
The manager makes an example of Benny Eguge
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom24 Mar 2036
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
In brief
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The dugout
Interim Coach answers for it
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Boardroom
Wages swallow 91% of the Red Star income
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Squad
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
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Match15 Mar 2036
No end in sight to Red Star's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Red Star has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Frédéric Perrin damages knee ligaments — 21 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match17 Mar 2036
Red Star sink to position 16
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market17 Mar 2036
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Red Star, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match15 Mar 2036
No clean sheets in sight for Red Star
6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Words exchanged at Red Star
Adam Żabicki 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.
Match15 Mar 2036
A bad afternoon for Red Star against Pau FC
1‑3 to Pau FC, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout17 Mar 2036
This is not rotation. Paolo Ghiglione has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Red Star is pretending otherwise.
The dugout17 Mar 2036
“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.
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Match8 Mar 2036
The wait goes on for Red Star
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad10 Mar 2036
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Red Star lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match8 Mar 2036
A 2-goal lead gone for Red Star
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. FC Fleury 91 kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Red Star will be asked about the last half hour all week.
Player ratings10 Mar 2036
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match8 Mar 2036
No clean sheets in sight for Red Star
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad10 Mar 2036
Words exchanged at Red Star
Teddy Boulhendi 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.
Match8 Mar 2036
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout10 Mar 2036
The manager makes an example of Alexandre Dupuy
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout10 Mar 2036
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑3 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
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Match27 Oct 2035
0‑3 to Paris 13 Atletico, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Boardroom29 Oct 2035
Red Star counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Red Star now.
Match27 Oct 2035
6 matches without a win for Red Star
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Red Star are no longer polite ones.
Squad29 Oct 2035
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom29 Oct 2035
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout29 Oct 2035
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout29 Oct 2035
The manager makes an example of Jerzino
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad29 Oct 2035
A row about effort at Red Star
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vincenzo Piazza was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Oct 2035
Off the academy pitches and onto a senior team sheet at 19. The debut is the easy part; the second appearance is the one every young player has to earn.