Youte

Central Defender - AJ Auxerre
23 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Youte

2 Edition

The AJ Auxerre Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Brondby watching Elisha Owusu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AJ Auxerre have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Clément Akpa stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Clément Akpa and AJ Auxerre agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at AJ Auxerre

Axel Tuanzebe and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

AJ Auxerre rebuffed over Théo Guivarch

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Clermont Foot have kept their man, and AJ Auxerre go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The dugout

Clément Akpa gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

A row about effort at AJ Auxerre

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rémy Labeau Lascary was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

No place for Youte in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation AJ Auxerre are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Kévin Danois knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kévin Danois trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

48 months and counting on Elisha Owusu

Still no offer on the table, and Elisha Owusu’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief