The US Boulogne Sentinel
Squad15 Nov 2027
Amine El Farissi breaks a bone — 63 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 63 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Nov 2027
The knee: Guillaume Rolland out for 39 days
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. US Boulogne lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Real improvement from Awab Qurashi Mukhtar at US Boulogne
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Awab Qurashi Mukhtar is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Anthony Rouault 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 US Boulogne this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Florian Boulet
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Amine El Farissi 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 Amine El Farissi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Azamat Uriev linked with a move away
- Market US Boulogne put Nolan Binet up for sale
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to FC Versailles
- The dugout Ignacio Pereira keeps his manager's vote