The Sochaux Courier
Squad14 Sep 2026
Silas Ostrzinski in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sochaux this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Julien Masson 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Aymen Boutoutaou
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Red Star take the points off Sochaux
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Max Dean
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Dean, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Costly mistake from Silas Ostrzinski
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Silas Ostrzinski knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Benjamin Gomel keeps on missing
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Max Dean could not find anything
5.68. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A day to forget for Solomon Loubao
Marked 5.71, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Market Window shut, Bendjaloud Youssouf still here
- Market Sochaux put Lucas Bonelli up for sale