The SM Caen Sentinel
Market21 Aug 2028
Jules Gaudin 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 SM Caen can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Mohamed Abdelmonem will not be coming to SM Caen
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at OGC Nice is saying, and nobody at SM Caen is enjoying the guessing.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Yann François breaks a bone — 14 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Too dear: SM Caen walk away from Yassine Benhattab
$2.5M was the most the club would pay and FC Nantes were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
The paperwork begins on Antoine Joujou
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. SM Caen have done the hard part with FC Nantes, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at SM Caen
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Door shut on Vitor Carvalho
SM Caen asked and Braga said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A falling-out at SM Caen
Nathan Gnémagnon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces21 Aug 2028
SM Caen supporters have found a favourite in Pape Niama Sissoko
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Pape Niama Sissoko has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Nicolas Berger joins the SM Caen first team
- Market SM Caen promote Jérôme Olivier from within
- Market One of our own: Frédéric Durand joins the SM Caen first team