Stéphane Le Goff

Right Forward - Montpellier HSC
6 Jul 2030
Saturday
Process

Marked for Stéphane Le Goff

204 Edition

The Montpellier HSC Gazette

24 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jordan Teze puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Montpellier HSC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Business is business: Kaio César goes

Rodez AF paid $10.3M and Montpellier HSC took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Montpellier HSC turn down FC Nantes for Andrea Dini

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Allan Tchaptchet is a medical away from Montpellier HSC

The deal with Grenoble Foot 38 is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

Montpellier HSC bid $48.0K for Paul Eymard

The offer went to Stade de Reims this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Montpellier HSC walk away from Noham Diop

$280.0K was the most the club would pay and Stade Rennais were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at Montpellier HSC

Julián López 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.

Transfer targets

Quevilly-Rouen tell Montpellier HSC: Augustine Boakye is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Enrico Delprato 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 Enrico Delprato is on it.

In brief

Back issues
203 Edition

The Montpellier HSC Gazette

17 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Nordine Kandil puts it in writing

“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 Montpellier HSC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Montpellier HSC say no — this time

The offer from FC Annecy for Junior Ndiaye was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Only the photograph left for Nordine Kandil

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nordine Kandil will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Montpellier HSC the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Transfer targets

Montpellier HSC make their move for Igor Neves

$700.0K on the table at Stade de Reims. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

An offer of $280.0K for Noham Diop

Montpellier HSC have gone to Stade Rennais with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

Khalil Fayad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Montpellier HSC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

OGC Nice tell Montpellier HSC: Mohamed Bamba is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Eyes on Andrea Dini again

The phone has started ringing about Andrea Dini again, and this time the name on the line is FC Nantes. Montpellier HSC are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Cristian Carrara: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Montpellier HSC will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

In brief