$2.7M on the table at OGC Nice. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pau FC can pretend not to have heard.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kabangu Alex Teixeira is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Enguerrand Bouard from OGC Nice for $1.6M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alphadjo Cissé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Add another name to the list: FC Fleury 91 have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alexandre Fernandes. The answer from Pau FC has not changed — yet.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alphadjo Cissé was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antonin Bobichon was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alberto Flores trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Pau FC that is a harder question to answer.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Valentin Liénard may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.