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Julien Sablé à Nice
By: Martha |[First, I apologize for the infrequency of updates here -- I'm just too busy right now to give Nice the attention they deserve, but I'll do my best to post once or twice a week with the big news, such as it is.]
This week, that news is the arrival of defensive mid Julien Sablé (presentation [...]
More Adeilson and Other Transfer Bits
By: Martha |For those of you who speak French and/or Portuguese or just like moving pictures, here’s Adeilson’s presentation. It’s hard to conclude much from those four-and-a-half minutes, but his words are optimistic and honest — It’s not often you hear a guy in his presentation at a new club say he’d never heard of them before [...]
Arras + Adeilson
By: Martha |There’s allegedly football being played in the first part of this clip. I have my doubts.
Arras 1 – 3 Nice
Buts: Bellatrêche (52è) pour Arras; Ben Saada (48è), Modeste (110è), Bamogo (113è pen) pour Nice
Arras: Lambenne – De Barros, Daval, Lombard, Delépine – Bellatrêche (c), Duchateau (Diarra, 99è), Luyssen (Lamourette, 109è), Hadjal – Catelet (Bellaredj, 63è), [...]
Quick News Roundup
By: Martha |Spellcaster!Anto: “… And when you wake up, you will think I have a full head of hair!”
•Squad list for Arras:
Gardiens: Letizi, Moreau
Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Gace, Hognon, Jeunechamp, Rool
Milieux: Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Traoré
Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben Saada, Modeste, Mouloungui, Ozokwo, Quansah
Rémy, Kante, and Coulibaly all have injury problems and Adu is suspended (?!), but the rest of [...]
Newsie Odds and Ends
By: Martha |[Not as scared of Baky and Ben Arfa as he looks. Probably.]
•The Grenoble match will be played either a week from today or on the 17th of this month. The 10th was the league’s initial proposal, but Pierre Wantiez had a fit about Nice getting an extra day of rest, so it could be pushed [...]
Heading Out Old Qatar Way
By: Martha |As promised, Joseph-Desire Job is headed to Qatar: He’s been sold to Al Kharaitiyat, a club whose official website has been suspended, apparently for failure to pay hosting costs. I hope that’s not a sign of how good they are about paying salaries. Even more strangely, the team doesn’t appear in FIFA’s table of the [...]
Nice 2-0 Valenciennes
By: Martha |Nice 2-0 Valenciennes
Buts: Bamogo (52è), Rémy (85è) pour Nice
Expulsion: Tiéné (31è) à Valenciennes
Nice: Letizi – Diakité, Apam, Kanté (Cid, 84è), Jeunechamp – Echouafni (c), Faé, Hellebuyck – Traoré (Ben Saada, 26è), Rémy, Bamogo (Modeste, 76è)
Valenciennes: Penneteau – Ducourtioux, Bisevac, Rafael (c), Tiéné – Saez, Sanchez, Mater (M. Traoré, 46è), Danic (Bangoura, 60è) – Audel, Pujol [...]
Le Havre: Le Non-Preview
By: Martha |Sorry for the semi-absence this week, I’ve been traveling and have only now settled in once place (for a while), so there sadly won’t be a proper preview for the Le Havre match. Instead, I can offer you some links, will that do? What if I pledge real previews in the future? Excellent.
•Both Coulibaly and [...]
Weekend Reading Material as We Wait for the Lille Match
By: Martha |Given the expression on Chouf’s face, I’m going to guess Ospina’s French is still pretty bad.
Could someone please explain what’s going on with Cedric Kanté? Last week, he was complaining about how the club weren’t interested in extending his contract beyond its current 2009 end because of all the central defenders in the team. Now, [...]
The Last Signing of the Summer?
By: Martha |Eric Mouloungui is officially Niçoise, to the tune of €2 million and a four-year contract. He’s still a youngster — only 24 — but has to this point never lived up to his potential in Ligue 1, having scored six goals for Strasbourg in over 60 matches during their time at the top level. When [...]






