Marked for Vincent Marchetti
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad30 Aug 2027
Ben Chilwell 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 RC Strasbourg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad30 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samir El Mourabet and RC Strasbourg agree another 5 years.
Squad30 Aug 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Kjetil Haug knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Rafael Luís gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
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Steady
Market2 Aug 2027
The bid was some way short and RC Strasbourg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Ben Chilwell 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 RC Strasbourg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Uroš Radaković and RC Strasbourg agree another 2 years.
Market2 Aug 2027
Stade Lavallois are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. RC Strasbourg will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market2 Aug 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
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Steady
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ben Chilwell 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 RC Strasbourg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Uroš Radaković
“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.
Market5 Jul 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Lucas Høgsberg knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at RC Strasbourg, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Somebody is after Ben Chilwell’s shirt
A new face in his position, and Ben Chilwell suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. RC Strasbourg have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market5 Jul 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Vincent Marchetti may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
Ben Chilwell 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 RC Strasbourg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Jun 2027
The name of Andrew Omobamidele has come up in conversations RC Strasbourg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Datro Fofana gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market21 Jun 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lucas Høgsberg’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at RC Strasbourg that is a harder question to answer.
Market21 Jun 2027
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs RC Strasbourg money.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Jun 2027
RC Strasbourg pay $4.9M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Paris FC heard it as anything else.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Paris FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kaïs Henot and Paris FC agree another 4 years.
Squad14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Adama Camara
“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.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer from Paris Saint-Germain for Joaquín Panichelli was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market14 Jun 2027
The fee is $4.9M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Paris FC drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market14 Jun 2027
The chase for Kelvin Amian ended with $4.3M changing hands and FC Nantes out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Ben Chilwell 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.
Loan watch14 Jun 2027
11 goals on loan for Sékou Mara
31 appearances at AJ Auxerre and the goals keep coming. RC Strasbourg are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Ilan Kebbal 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 Paris FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
“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.
Squad10 May 2027
Hamari Traoré asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Paris FC
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Diego Coppola 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 423% of everything Paris FC earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Angers SCO, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market5 Oct 2026
Moses Simon linked with a move away
The name of Moses Simon keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Paris FC say nothing, which says plenty.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Paris FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.