The Stade Rennais Courier
Market3 Aug 2026
Brice Samba raises the bar for Stade Rennais
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Stade Rennais heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Adrien Thomasson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adrien Thomasson and Stade Rennais agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Stade Rennais
Brice Samba 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Stade Rennais training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Anthony Rouault is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market3 Aug 2026
Stade Rennais and Adrien Thomasson are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Breel Embolo 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 Breel Embolo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market François-Joseph Sollacaro joins Stade Rennais on a free
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on François-Joseph Sollacaro