The Angers SCO Courier
Squad14 Oct 2041
A knee injury of the worst kind for Richard Giraud
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Angers SCO lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Oct 2041
The wait goes on for Angers SCO
10 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.
Squad14 Oct 2041
Tempers go at Angers SCO
Ousmane Camara 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.
Squad14 Oct 2041
George Chubinidze gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. George Chubinidze has just signed for Angers SCO, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom14 Oct 2041
Angers SCO beat the market to Federico Romeo from Monaco
Monaco will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Federico Romeo has pre-agreed a move to Angers SCO, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad14 Oct 2041
Angers SCO lose Antoine Dupuy
36 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match12 Oct 2041
Angers SCO share the spoils with Olympique de Marseille
A 2‑2 draw with Olympique de Marseille leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market14 Oct 2041
No place for Benoît Sanchez in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Benoît Sanchez has his answer from Angers SCO; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market14 Oct 2041
Angers SCO bring in an old head
George Chubinidze is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
In brief
- Market The Yahya Jlidi question follows Angers SCO around
- Player ratings Noam Obougou Jacquet ran the game
- Market Nobody at Angers SCO has picked up the phone to Platon Matiukov