The Sochaux Courier
Squad28 Jan 2036
Vincent Benoit damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Market28 Jan 2036
Emiliyan Gogev asks to leave Sochaux
“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.
Market28 Jan 2036
Henrijs Auseklis has said yes to FC Villefranche
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sochaux have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad28 Jan 2036
A falling-out at Sochaux
Alexei Savinov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets28 Jan 2036
Sochaux rebuffed over Justin Lacombe
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Toulouse FC have kept their man, and Sochaux go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Words at Sochaux training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brahim Mokhtari 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.
Match26 Jan 2036
Sochaux get the job done against Red Star
A 1‑0 win over Red Star, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Jan 2036
Lisandro Silva wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sochaux can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Player ratings28 Jan 2036
Dženis Totić was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
In brief
- Player ratings Mylan Toty was the difference for Sochaux
- Transfer targets Sochaux try to borrow Yurdy Ramos
- The dugout Interim Coach has his say