Vincent Guyot

Striker - Botosani
23 Jul 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Vincent Guyot

373 Edition

The Botosani Courier

19 Sep 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Djibril Diaw breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

6 matches without a win for Botosani

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Botosani are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Vincent Guyot: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Botosani have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Botosani

Charles Petro 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.

Squad

Ştefan Bodişteanu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

3 matches without a goal for Botosani

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Player ratings

Paul Ferracani shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings

Riad Šuta stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.69 on the card, and the Botosani support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

Ivan Kontek was immovable

16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

In brief

Back issues
341 Edition

The Botosani Courier

7 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Riad Šuta breaks a bone — 41 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

The scrutiny sharpens at Botosani

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Botosani is running low.

Boardroom

Botosani put Interim Coach on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad

Vincent Guyot keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Botosani may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Charles Petro 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 Botosani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Botosani training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ştefan Bodişteanu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

  • Boardroom Botosani pull $1.9M back off the table
  • Boardroom Botosani sign a deal worth $225.4K a year
  • Market The shop window has Warren Cedille in it
340 Edition

The Botosani Courier

31 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Botosani has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Tempers go at Botosani

Charles Petro 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.

Squad

Ştefan Bodişteanu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief