Marked for Adrien Julloux
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mats Deijl 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Business is business: Enzo Basilio goes
FC Lorient paid $570.0K and AS Nancy took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Benoît Costil
“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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 86% of everything AS Nancy 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Patrick Ouotro 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
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and AS Nancy have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
João Rego runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mats Deijl 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 AS Nancy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Zakaria Fdaouch, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match2 Jan 2027
Nimes left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for AS Nancy
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AS Nancy are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Mats Deijl 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad19 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A mark of 4.27 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near João Rego
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
Bakari Camara 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 AS Nancy can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Remi Walter 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Patrick Ouotro scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Sochaux, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
AS Nancy have made Enzo Basilio available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 20 years old, Mattheo Guendez became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AS Nancy would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 5.57 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Upbeat
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jérémy Gélin 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 AS Nancy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Pape Niama Sissoko. 3‑1 against Stade Lavallois, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.69 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.65 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 16, and nobody at AS Nancy signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.