Nathan Dekoke

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Marked for Nathan Dekoke

69 Edition

The FC Villefranche Gazette

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 Nov 2027

Lucas Camelo breaks a bone — 55 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Brian Bayeye was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Both of them Babacar Leye's — 8.46

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Tempers go at FC Villefranche

Vincent Marcel 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.

Match20 Nov 2027

FC Villefranche end the wait against Bourg-Peronnas

It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Brian Bayeye 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.

Match20 Nov 2027

Babacar Leye sends FC Villefranche past Bourg-Peronnas

It finished 2‑1, and it was Babacar Leye’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to FC Villefranche.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Appearance number 200 for Nathan Dekoke

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Rodolfo 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.

In brief

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68 Edition

The FC Villefranche Gazette

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Nov 2027

Lucas Camelo breaks a bone — 63 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 63 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Words exchanged at FC Villefranche

Vincent Marcel and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Rodolfo wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FC Villefranche know it.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Words at FC Villefranche training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mathis Touho 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.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

The manager makes an example of Sambaly Keïta

“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.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

Babacar Leye 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.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

Ladji Sylla has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at FC Villefranche will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Looking ahead15 Nov 2027

A reunion for Nathan Dekoke

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bourg-Peronnas in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout15 Nov 2027

The manager makes Lucas Margueron a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at FC Villefranche. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

44 Edition

The FC Villefranche Gazette

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 May 2027

Sullivan Péan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around FC Villefranche they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad31 May 2027

Words exchanged at FC Villefranche

Vincent Marcel and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad31 May 2027

A muscle injury sidelines Nathan Dekoke for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. FC Villefranche will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad31 May 2027

A row about effort at FC Villefranche

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mathis Touho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout31 May 2027

No hiding place for Raouf Mroivili

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Raouf Mroivili, and the manager let it.

The dugout31 May 2027

Ladji Sylla has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ladji Sylla has written the date down.

In brief

9 Edition

The FC Villefranche Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Mathis Touho was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at FC Villefranche

Loïc Etoga and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match26 Sep 2026

Le Puy Foot 43 take the points off FC Villefranche

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at FC Villefranche

10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Frédéric Arnaud left the room before anybody could ask which.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at FC Villefranche training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marvin Tshibuabua 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.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Thimothé David

“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.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

Kévin Testud dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Looking ahead28 Sep 2026

Nathan Dekoke goes back to face Quevilly-Rouen

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Nathan Dekoke’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FC Villefranche needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief