The Valenciennes Post
Squad27 Aug 2040
A fracture rules Frédéric Benoit out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Valenciennes will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match25 Aug 2040
6 matches without a win for Valenciennes
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Valenciennes are no longer polite ones.
Squad27 Aug 2040
A one-man rearguard from Renato Marin
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad27 Aug 2040
Daou Diomandé in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Valenciennes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Aug 2040
Rento Takaoka falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match25 Aug 2040
Valenciennes and Sochaux take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Rento Takaoka
- Market Benoît Clément leaves for nothing
- Market Richard Rolland leaves for nothing
- Boardroom The Valenciennes production line keeps running