The Sochaux Courier
Squad20 May 2030
The knee: Jonas Albenas out for 49 days
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sochaux lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market20 May 2030
Joshua Frau asks to leave Sochaux
“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.
Market20 May 2030
Thimothé David is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sochaux is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad20 May 2030
Dylan Tavares 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 Sochaux this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 May 2030
Words at Sochaux training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julien Masson 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 dugout20 May 2030
The manager makes an example of Yad Lochereau
“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 dugout20 May 2030
The manager makes Samy Baghdadi a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Sochaux. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout20 May 2030
Mehdi Jeannin knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mehdi Jeannin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market20 May 2030
Thimothé David runs his contract down
4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Sochaux money.
In brief
- The dugout Jonas Albenas keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Kapit Djoco is fit again