The Dijon Gazette
Squad19 Aug 2030
The knee: Leroy Abanda out for 96 days
96 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dijon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
No thanks: Soriba Diaoune rejects the move
Dijon had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Monaco, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Dijon agree $560.0K for Nathan Zoko
The clubs have shaken hands with Toulouse FC; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market19 Aug 2030
Only the photograph left for Kimi Gandziri
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kimi Gandziri will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Konstantinos Angelakis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Transfer targets19 Aug 2030
Door shut on Noah Nadje
Dijon asked and Angers SCO said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market19 Aug 2030
Luck Zogbé has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Dijon can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Tempers go at Dijon
Rominigue Kouamé 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.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Late improvement for Rominigue Kouamé
At 33 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
In brief
- Boardroom Graduation day at Dijon
- Market Luc Schmitt steps up from the Dijon academy
- Market Frédéric Roche steps up from the Dijon academy