Mathieu Arnaud

Goalkeeper - Stade Brestois
1 Jan 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Mathieu Arnaud

165 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

24 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Ibrahim Kanté beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 51. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

Stade Brestois bow out of the cup

AS Nancy go through and Stade Brestois go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

Bradley Locko hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Stade Brestois can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Dominik Greif is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Dominik Greif: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Market

Only the photograph left for Alexandre Tunkadi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandre Tunkadi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stade Brestois the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Stade Brestois

Dominik Greif and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Hugo Magnetti 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

Two points walk out of the ground

Level with 92 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Stade Brestois had all but put away. AS Nancy will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.

Player ratings

Alexandre Tunkadi misses from twelve yards

It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.

In brief

Back issues
163 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Stade Brestois board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Player ratings

Mama Baldé beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Habib Diallo yet — 8.06

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.06 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The dugout

Ibrahim Kanté keeps the receipts

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

Match

No end in sight to Stade Brestois's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Stade Brestois has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Stade Brestois

Dominik Greif 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

Words at Stade Brestois training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bradley Locko 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.

Match

Red Star take the points off Stade Brestois

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Transfer targets

The window shuts on the Arthur Vitelli deal

Stade Brestois ran out of time with FC Metz. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

In brief