Timothée Pembélé

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Marked for Timothée Pembélé

10 Edition

The Le Havre AC Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kwider Benmakrelouf

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Le Havre AC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

6 matches without a win for Le Havre AC

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Le Havre AC are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Benoît Sida is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 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.

Squad

Sofiane Boufal 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.

Match

The goals have deserted Le Havre AC

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Le Havre AC can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A falling-out at Le Havre AC

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sota Nakamura

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Timothée Pembélé stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.43 on the card, and the Le Havre AC support went home talking about one name.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Philippe Gauthier was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Le Havre AC dressing room was either.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Le Havre AC Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Le Havre AC bid $4.5M for Ousmane Touré

The offer went to LOSC Lille this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Lionel Mpasi keeps Le Havre AC in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Timothée Pembélé asks to leave Le Havre AC

“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.

Boardroom

Le Havre AC go back to the board over Ranjan Neelakandan

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $223.2K — a club that wants Ranjan Neelakandan enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Le Havre AC make their move for Ranjan Neelakandan

$220.0K on the table at FC Annecy. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Words at Le Havre AC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sofiane Boufal 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Matthieu Epolo

Le Havre AC asked and Standard Liege said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

A bad afternoon for Le Havre AC against RC Lens

0‑2 to RC Lens, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Eyes on Kabangu Alex Teixeira again

The phone has started ringing about Kabangu Alex Teixeira again, and this time the name on the line is CSM Slatina. Le Havre AC are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Sota Nakamura
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Simon Ebonog gets it from the manager