Philippe Rolland

Central Defender - FC Lorient
22 Oct 2035
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Marked for Philippe Rolland

418 Edition

The FC Lorient Herald

31 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Jul 2034

A fracture rules Lautaro Ríos out for 120 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Lorient will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom31 Jul 2034

The scrutiny sharpens at FC Lorient

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

Player ratings31 Jul 2034

Age has not caught Bandiougou Fadiga yet — 8.48

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.48 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market31 Jul 2034

Chamois Niortais watching Daniel Le Duigou

The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Lorient have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market31 Jul 2034

Kévin Williams has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Lorient they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad31 Jul 2034

Real improvement from Philippe Rolland at FC Lorient

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Philippe Rolland is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings31 Jul 2034

Nathaniel Adjei in the eights

A performance of 8.82 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match29 Jul 2034

Nathaniel Adjei sends FC Lorient past Clermont Foot

It finished 2‑0, and it was Nathaniel Adjei’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Lorient.

Squad31 Jul 2034

Words at FC Lorient training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lautaro Ríos 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

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414 Edition

The FC Lorient Herald

3 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 Jul 2034

Pressure builds in the FC Lorient boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad3 Jul 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dominique Durand

28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FC Lorient lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom3 Jul 2034

FC Lorient 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.

Squad3 Jul 2034

Samuel Dié keeps the receipts

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

Market3 Jul 2034

Chamois Niortais watching Daniel Le Duigou

The interest is real enough to have reached print. FC Lorient have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Jul 2034

Philippe Rolland is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Squad3 Jul 2034

Words at FC Lorient training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Victor Makengo 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.

Boardroom3 Jul 2034

Intake day at the FC Lorient academy

10 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.

Market3 Jul 2034

The Mohamed Bamba story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Mohamed Bamba signs something — a contract at FC Lorient or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief