The AJ Auxerre Sentinel
Match12 Sep 2026
AJ Auxerre taken apart
0‑3 to Stade Rennais, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match12 Sep 2026
AJ Auxerre are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Squad14 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Donovan Léon
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Donovan Léon, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Romain Faivre runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Enzo Crivelli 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at AJ Auxerre
Sébastien Joly was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at AJ Auxerre
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and AJ Auxerre 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Aaron Issumo counts the days
“I watch every AJ Auxerre game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at LOSC Lille runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the pace: Arthur Piedfort
- Player ratings Enzo Crivelli could not find anything
- Player ratings Lamine Sy never got going