The Stade Rennais Courier
Market26 May 2036
Guillaume Henry 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.
The dugout26 May 2036
Àlex Delgado 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.
Market26 May 2036
Enzo Kost has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Stade Rennais they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 May 2036
Words at Stade Rennais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Quentin Merlin 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 May 2036
Tempers go at Stade Rennais
Amin Chiakha 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.
Squad26 May 2036
Stade Rennais lose Thomas Garnier
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad26 May 2036
Junior Ligue wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Stade Rennais can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout26 May 2036
The manager has not finished forgetting Rassoul Ndiaye's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout26 May 2036
Omar Janneh knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Omar Janneh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Yakyne Youssouf Moumini
- Loan watch Zadig Lanssade’s loan is measured in nothing happening
- Market The Omar Janneh story refuses to die