The SM Caen Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yann M'Vila signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yann M'Vila and SM Caen agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Anthony Mandréa wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and SM Caen know it.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv Plovdiv tell SM Caen: Julien Lamy is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Yann M'Vila 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 SM Caen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at SM Caen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Valentin Henry was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Talks stall between SM Caen and Yann M'Vila
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at SM Caen has picked up the phone to Anthony Mandréa
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
SM Caen ask about Gabriel Silva
A loan enquiry to Braga: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
SM Caen try to borrow Guglielmo Mignani
Benevento have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Market Ivann Botella leaves for nothing
- Market Armand Gnanduillet slips out the side door