The Stade Lavallois Courier
Market31 Aug 2026
Namory Diarra 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 Stade Lavallois can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Dylan Mbayo
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Stade Lavallois
Owen Kouassi 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Dylan Mbayo 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Eros Maddy was the difference for Stade Lavallois
Marked 7.70. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad31 Aug 2026
No hiding place for William Bianda
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to William Bianda, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Stade Lavallois and Bourg-Peronnas
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Yohan Tavares
- Market Stade Lavallois borrow Sebastián Driussi
- Player ratings The referee tires of Sam Sanna