Sofiane Alakouch

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Process

Marked for Sofiane Alakouch

4 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Paris FC tear Olympique de Marseille apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Olympique de Marseille, and it could have been more.

Market

Paris FC get their man

The chase for Hamza Igamane ended with $16.9M changing hands and LOSC Lille out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets

No deal for Tanguy Ndombele at that price

Paris FC offered $7.5M; OGC Nice said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Timothée Kolodziejczak asks to leave Paris FC

“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.

Market

Charleroi join the queue for Maxime Lopez

Add another name to the list: Charleroi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Maxime Lopez. The answer from Paris FC has not changed — yet.

Market

Paris FC say no — this time

The offer from Angers SCO for Sofiane Alakouch 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Paris FC

Ilan Kebbal 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.

The terraces

Paris FC spend $16.9M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $16.9M for Hamza Igamane, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Words at Paris FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Benjamin Stambouli 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.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Paris FC Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Hamza Igamane is a medical away from Paris FC

The deal with LOSC Lille is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets

No deal for Joaquín Panichelli at that price

Paris FC offered $21.3M; RC Strasbourg said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Transfer targets

Paris FC rebuffed over Odsonne Édouard

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RC Lens have kept their man, and Paris FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Paris FC bid $7.0M for Tanguy Ndombele

The offer went to OGC Nice this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market

Rudy Matondo moves on

Olympique Lyonnais pay $1.3M, 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.

Squad

Diego Coppola 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Paris FC

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Angers SCO join the queue for Sofiane Alakouch

Add another name to the list: Angers SCO have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sofiane Alakouch. The answer from Paris FC has not changed — yet.

Market

Paris FC promote Emmanuel Gauthier from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Emmanuel Gauthier has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief