The Stade Rennais Courier
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Door shut on Batista Mendy
Stade Rennais asked and Trabzonspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Aug 2026
Kelvin Dongopandji asks to leave Stade Rennais
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Quentin Merlin
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Stade Rennais get the job done against Monaco
A 1‑0 win over Monaco, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
One of those days for Alidu Seidu
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Boulaye Dia in the eights
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Stade Rennais
Lorys Jagu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Stade Rennais are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Frédéric Pons has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Frédéric Pons on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
In brief
- Squad The division's best last weekend was a Stade Rennais man
- Market The Valentin Rongier talk will not go away
- The dugout No place in the plan for Mahdi Camara