The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Squad29 May 2028
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.
Squad29 May 2028
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.
Market29 May 2028
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 dugout29 May 2028
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.
Squad29 May 2028
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 dugout29 May 2028
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 dugout29 May 2028
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 dugout29 May 2028
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.
Market29 May 2028
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
- Match A season winding down at AJ Auxerre
- Squad Frédéric Roger back in training