The FC Nantes Sentinel
Squad15 Nov 2027
Sofiane Alakouch damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Mathieu Lefèvre: 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.” FC Nantes have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market15 Nov 2027
Yoan Bonny has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether FC Nantes can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Yoan Bonny
15 goals and a season average of 7.37 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A falling-out at FC Nantes
Alban Lafont and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market15 Nov 2027
As if he never left: Sanah Camara returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Sanah Camara is a FC Nantes player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad15 Nov 2027
A row about effort at FC Nantes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mousa Lukaku was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Esteban Lepaul
“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.
Match13 Nov 2027
FC Nantes rescue it on 89 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 89. OGC Nice had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
In brief
- Loan watch Bahmed Deuff wants to come home
- Match FC Nantes and OGC Nice take a point apiece
- The dugout Marc Meunier on the point