The Montpellier HSC Gazette
Match12 Mar 2033
Montpellier HSC tear AS Nancy apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against AS Nancy, and it could have been more.
Player ratings14 Mar 2033
A brace, and Evan Irene takes the afternoon — 8.71
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Evan Irene provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market14 Mar 2033
Moslem Anatouf is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Montpellier HSC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market14 Mar 2033
Lautaro Rastelli asks to leave Montpellier HSC
“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.
Squad14 Mar 2033
A falling-out at Montpellier HSC
Ismaël Bennacer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom14 Mar 2033
Moslem Anatouf signs for OGC Nice while still at Montpellier HSC
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Moslem Anatouf has agreed terms with OGC Nice for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad14 Mar 2033
A row about effort at Montpellier HSC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emeka Adiele was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout14 Mar 2033
No hiding place for Francisco Mendes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Francisco Mendes, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Mar 2033
Montpellier HSC count the cost of losing Mathieu Leclercq
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Player ratings Nicolas Pays was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- The dugout A satisfied Interim Coach
- Squad The formation has left Hamidou Hamza behind