Marked for Thibaut Plisson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Hamadou Karamoko out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Fleury 91 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Aug 2027
16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Fleury 91 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
$2.2M on the table at AJ Auxerre. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Grégoire Lefebvre 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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
FC Fleury 91 have gone to ESTAC Troyes with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
$33.0K on the table at FC Versailles. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
$33.0K was the most the club would pay and FC Versailles were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Gaël Alette 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.
Market2 Aug 2027
Enzo Bovis is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FC Fleury 91 has been clear about where Enzo Bovis stands, which is more than many ever get.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad7 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Hamadou Karamoko out for 86 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Fleury 91 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Fleury 91, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Thibaut Plisson: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Fleury 91 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Grégoire Lefebvre 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nadir Homssa, and the manager let it.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
A loan enquiry to RC Strasbourg: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Benaja Sala Zola 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Loup Hervieu knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Fleury 91, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Match17 Apr 2027
No end in sight to FC Fleury 91's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Fleury 91 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A fracture rules Sadibou Sylla out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FC Fleury 91 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Hugo Aubourg: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Fleury 91 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Apr 2027
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Fleury 91 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at FC Fleury 91 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gaël Alette 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 dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Gaël Alette
“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.
Match17 Apr 2027
FC Villefranche left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Mathieu Carré to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Match10 Apr 2027
No end in sight to FC Fleury 91's wait for a win
13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Fleury 91 has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Grégoire Lefebvre 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at FC Fleury 91 can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gaël Alette was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Jonathan Rivas
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The team sheet said everything about Nadir Homssa
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Nadir Homssa.
Market12 Apr 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Thibaut Plisson has his answer from FC Fleury 91; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Théo Bloudeau
“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 dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mathieu Carré was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the FC Fleury 91 dressing room was either.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 86 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Fleury 91 can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
FC Fleury 91 close the window on a squad of their own making
12 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
FC Fleury 91 asked and FC Annecy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hamadou Karamoko 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sadibou Sylla was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
FC Fleury 91 will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Kévin Farade knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at FC Fleury 91, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Hamadou Karamoko’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and FC Fleury 91 needing him to play as if none of it matters.