Benoît Morin

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Process

Marked for Benoît Morin

504 Edition

The Red Star Courier

24 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

15 matches without a win for Red Star

The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Red Star are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Frédéric Perrin damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Chastening afternoon for Red Star

A 0‑3 beating by Stade Lavallois was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match

Red Star are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 7 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Market

Pierre Julien asks to leave Red Star

“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.

The dugout

Benoît Morin: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Red Star have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Words exchanged at Red Star

Lorenzo Carvalho and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Benny Eguge

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom

Inquest at Red Star

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

  • The dugout Interim Coach answers for it
  • Boardroom Wages swallow 91% of the Red Star income
  • Squad Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Back issues
481 Edition

The Red Star Courier

15 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Red Star 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Red Star

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

Squad

Diogo Neves gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Diogo Neves has just signed for Red Star, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout

No hiding place for Louis Renault

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Louis Renault, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Red Star training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Serxho Ujka 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.

Squad

Benoît Morin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Benoît Morin commits to Red Star for another 3 years.

Market

Still no ink between Red Star and Alexandre Dupuy

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Red Star, another week without a signature from Alexandre Dupuy.

Market

The Álvaro Zamora question follows Red Star around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Álvaro Zamora’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Diogo Neves joins Red Star to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Red Star have gone and got theirs early.

In brief