Marked for Dylan Durivaux
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marley Milord
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Red Star lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market28 Jun 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Red Star is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Théo Magnin is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
Gaëtan Poussin 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The name of Quentin Beunardeau has come up in conversations Red Star were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Red Star release $102.6K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Durivaux 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dylan Durivaux, and the manager let it.
Market7 Jun 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Bakari Diawara has his answer from Red Star; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Steady
Match17 May 2027
Red Star are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 40 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad17 May 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 Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 May 2027
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryad Hachem 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Gaëtan Poussin 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Durivaux 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Dylan Durivaux 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 Red Star, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Mar 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 Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Islamdine Halifa 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Dylan Durivaux 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 Dylan Durivaux trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match22 Mar 2027
Red Star are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 40 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Gaëtan Poussin 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Ryad Hachem 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 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 Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Red Star training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryad Hachem 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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Angers SCO to sit and watch. I want to come back to Red Star and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
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Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Cyril Borval gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Cyril Borval has just signed for Red Star, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Feb 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 Red Star this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“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.