The Red Star Courier
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ismaël Sylla breaks a bone — 41 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gaëtan Poussin keeps Red Star 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Red Star
Gaëtan Poussin and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Dembo Sylla was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Leonardo Buta
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad28 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and Red Star are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
A promise honoured for Pierre Lemonnier
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Red Star told Pierre Lemonnier something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Half-satisfied: Jean Rey on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Abdelsamad Hachem
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
In brief
- Match Red Star draw a blank against US Boulogne
- The dugout Godson Kyeremeh asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Saïf-Eddine Khaoui goes back to face ESTAC Troyes