Frédéric Roger

Left Forward - AJ Auxerre U18
3 Mar 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Frédéric Roger

96 Edition

The AJ Auxerre Sentinel

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at AJ Auxerre

Axel Tuanzebe 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.

Squad

Tony Mendy is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Assane Dioussé returns a better player

30 games and 2 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.

The dugout

No hiding place for Giangiacomo Magnani

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giangiacomo Magnani, and the manager let it.

Squad

AJ Auxerre are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

When it matters, Lamine Sy plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Danny Namaso asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

The manager makes Fredrik Oppegård a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at AJ Auxerre. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

Bryan Okoh back at AJ Auxerre

The loan is over: 29 appearances and 0 goals away from home, and now the harder question of whether he is wanted here.

In brief

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The AJ Auxerre Sentinel

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for AJ Auxerre

5 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.

Squad

Tempers go at AJ Auxerre

Axel Tuanzebe 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.

The dugout

Gabin Capuano 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.

Market

AJ Auxerre promote Roger Meyer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roger Meyer has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Didier Schmitt steps up from the AJ Auxerre academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Didier Schmitt has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

AJ Auxerre promote Roger Dufour from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roger Dufour has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Frédéric Roger joins the AJ Auxerre first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Frédéric Roger is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

A bad afternoon for AJ Auxerre against Olympique Lyonnais

0‑1 to Olympique Lyonnais, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Lasso Coulibaly runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief