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626 Edition

The Stade Rennais Courier

26 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market26 Jul 2038

Only the photograph left for Édouard François

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

Market26 Jul 2038

Stade Rennais say no — this time

The offer from Dijon for Raymond Leroux was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market26 Jul 2038

US Creteil watching Mervin Gbeme

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

Squad26 Jul 2038

Alidu Seidu 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 Stade Rennais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Jul 2038

Words at Stade Rennais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Grønbæk 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.

Squad26 Jul 2038

Benoît Huet out for 58 days

The medical room confirms 58 days on the sidelines for Benoît Huet, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

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625 Edition

The Stade Rennais Courier

19 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces19 Jul 2038

Anger at Stade Rennais spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom19 Jul 2038

Stade Rennais give the job to Interim Coach

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Market19 Jul 2038

Kevin Fuchs 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 Rennais can pretend not to have heard.

Squad19 Jul 2038

Tempers go at Stade Rennais

Alidu Seidu 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 Jul 2038

Albert Grønbæk 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.

Market19 Jul 2038

The Marc Joly conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Dijon will make the call about Marc Joly this week. Stade Rennais have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

619 Edition

The Stade Rennais Courier

7 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom7 Jun 2038

It is over: Stade Rennais are relegated

The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.

Boardroom7 Jun 2038

Interim Coach is out at Stade Rennais

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Boardroom7 Jun 2038

A stranger takes charge at Stade Rennais

The coaching staff has emptied out entirely and there was nobody internal to promote, so the club has appointed a name almost none of its supporters will recognise. Clubs recover from this; none of them enjoy explaining it.

Boardroom7 Jun 2038

Interim Coach steps up at Stade Rennais for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Squad7 Jun 2038

Didier Roche keeps the receipts

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

Market7 Jun 2038

Egill Arnarsson asks to leave Stade Rennais

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad7 Jun 2038

Alidu Seidu 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 Stade Rennais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market7 Jun 2038

Stade Rennais say no — this time

The offer from Red Star for Alexandr Temirov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad7 Jun 2038

Words at Stade Rennais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albert Grønbæk 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

549 Edition

The Stade Rennais Courier

2 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Feb 2037

Hervé Barbier keeps Stade Rennais in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings2 Feb 2037

A brace, and Mervin Gbeme takes the afternoon — 8.86

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mervin Gbeme provided it, and the 8.86 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad2 Feb 2037

Didier Roche says Stade Rennais went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings2 Feb 2037

Age has not caught Randal Kolo Muani yet — 8.24

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.24 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad2 Feb 2037

Tempers go at Stade Rennais

Albert Grønbæk 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.

Squad2 Feb 2037

Mervin Gbeme is carrying Stade Rennais

13 goals and a season average of 7.46. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match31 Jan 2037

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

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

Market2 Feb 2037

Monaco expected to open talks for Hervé Robert

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Stade Rennais will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match31 Jan 2037

Stade Rennais share the spoils with OGC Nice

A 2‑2 draw with OGC Nice leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief