Thilo Kehrer

Right Back - Monaco
9 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Thilo Kehrer

15 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nothing got past Denis Zakaria

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 50 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings

Thilo Kehrer shuts the door

Defensive actions: 28, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

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Maghnes Akliouche runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Monaco

Denis Zakaria 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.

Match

6 unbeaten for Monaco

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Monaco did not have in the autumn.

Match

Monaco see off RC Lens

Three points for Monaco, 2‑0 the final word against RC Lens in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Mika Biereth in the eights

A performance of 8.51 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

No hiding place for Jordan Teze

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jordan Teze, and the manager let it.

Squad

Paul Pogba finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Monaco have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Monaco Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Mohammed Salisu

Defensive actions: 32. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

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Nothing got past Thilo Kehrer

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

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Alexandr Golovin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Maghnes Akliouche wants more than Monaco are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Tempers go at Monaco

Yann Sommer 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 122% of everything Monaco earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

No hiding place for Simon Adingra

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Simon Adingra, and the manager let it.

Squad

Eric Dier loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Eric Dier. Monaco will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

Squad

Eric Dier asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief