The Stade Lavallois Courier
Squad11 Aug 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sam Sanna
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stade Lavallois lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings11 Aug 2031
Filippo Scotti beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 37. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market11 Aug 2031
Evan Bouttier agrees terms with AJ Auxerre
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Stade Lavallois people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets11 Aug 2031
Matthias Da Silva turns down Stade Lavallois
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Olympique Lyonnais keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Aug 2031
A falling-out at Stade Lavallois
Mamadou Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Aug 2031
Armani Babah is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stade Lavallois is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Hedser Groenhof is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Squad11 Aug 2031
Titouan Thomas 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.
Transfer targets11 Aug 2031
Door shut on Abdon Turrubiates
Stade Lavallois asked and Huesca said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
- Match Stade Lavallois caught on 86 minutes
- Transfer targets Stade Lavallois ask about Jean Muller
- Market A long bet from Stade Lavallois on Emmanuel David