The Stade Brestois Sentinel
Squad13 Sep 2027
Titouan Thomas says Stade Brestois went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Pathé Mboup is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Juan Manuel Lorenzo wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Stade Brestois know it.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Stade Brestois
Ludovic Ajorque 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.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Nothing got past Hugo Magnetti
22 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
One of those days for Brendan Chardonnet
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match11 Sep 2027
Stade Brestois find a way past RC Lens
RC Lens made Stade Brestois work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
Paul Roussel has seen enough of Parma
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Stade Brestois, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Nobody could get near Mama Baldé
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Joris Chotard
- Market Romain Del Castillo linked with a move away
- Market The window shut and Junior Sambia is still in the building