The Stade Briochin Herald
Squad21 Aug 2028
The knee: Stan Janno out for 45 days
45 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Stade Briochin lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market21 Aug 2028
Edwin Ody agrees terms with Quevilly-Rouen
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Stade Briochin people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Age has not caught Louis Bury yet — 8.02
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.02 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
The paperwork begins on David Aguy
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Stade Briochin have done the hard part with Stade Lavallois, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Boubacar Diakhaby frozen out at Stade Briochin
This is not rotation. Boubacar Diakhaby has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Stade Briochin is pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at Stade Briochin
Youssoupha Ndiaye 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Stade Briochin
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match19 Aug 2028
At last: Stade Briochin win one
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Le Puy Foot 43. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Stade Briochin rebuffed over Adam Ayari
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris Saint-Germain have kept their man, and Stade Briochin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Malick Sylla
- Market One of our own: Émile Ménard joins the Stade Briochin first team
- Market Stade Briochin promote Daniel Lucas from within