The Red Star Courier
Squad5 Oct 2026
34 days out for Ismaël Sylla after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Red Star will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Red Star — 7.39
1 for Islamdine Halifa, marked 7.39, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Paolo De Sousa Rodrigues
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Dembo Sylla runs at them all day
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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 148% of everything Red Star 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
Rayane Doucouré counts the days
“I watch every Red Star game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at US Boulogne runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Red Star
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dembo Sylla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Red Star
Paolo De Sousa Rodrigues 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Red Star and ESTAC Troyes take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Jean Rey on the draw
- The dugout Abdelsamad Hachem knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The Gaëtan Poussin story refuses to die