The Stade Brestois Sentinel
Squad30 Oct 2034
A fracture rules Andy Pelmard out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Stade Brestois will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market30 Oct 2034
Vasil Kaymakanov 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 Stade Brestois can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Oct 2034
Only the photograph left for Kryštof Karban
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kryštof Karban will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Stade Brestois the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom30 Oct 2034
Ahmed Sidibé signs for FC Metz while still at Stade Brestois
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Ahmed Sidibé has agreed terms with FC Metz for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad30 Oct 2034
A falling-out at Stade Brestois
Franco Saavedra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Oct 2034
A bad afternoon for Stade Brestois against AS Saint-Etienne
0‑1 to AS Saint-Etienne, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Oct 2034
A row about effort at Stade Brestois
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed Sidibé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Oct 2034
Nobody could get near Vasil Kaymakanov
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Oct 2034
Stade Brestois count the cost of losing Stéphane Meyer
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Interim Coach: “No excuses”
- The dugout Irakly Manelov gets it from the manager
- Market Kamory Doumbia linked with a move away