[FM15] Pau FC: How the Paupers of the Pyrénées became a European Pauwerhouse

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      12           1       0      0
2018/19   National      39           2       0      0
2019/20   National      26           1       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       35           0       1      1
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Total                  112           4       2      2

Summary: His lack of games compared to last season is only a consequence of him picking up injuries. He had a pretty good season at DM and i'm hoping he can make the step up to Ligue 2 level next season.

Sami Denis, 20, MRC/AMRC

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2016/17   National       8           1       2      0
2017/18   National      27           2       0      0
2018/19   National      33           5       1      0
2019/20   National      19           1       2      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       25           4       2      0 
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Total                  112          13       7      0

Summary: Still isn't as good as I would like him to be. He saw a lot of game time this season as a result of injury crises at CAM and CM throughout the season. His contract expires in the summer and he is very adamant that he isn't renewing so he may very well have played his last game for us.

Vincent Jardin, 17, AML/ST

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2018/19   National      18           0       4      4
2019/20   National      37           7      31      7
2020/21   Ligue 2       42          10      25      4
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Total                   97          17      60     11

Summary: Another fantastic season. Managed to successfully make the step up to Ligue 2, banging in 25 goals in 42 games in all competitions. He is attracting interest from Ligue 1 FC Nantes and Olympiakos who have the appeal of Champions League football which could well sway him into leaving.

Abderrahmane Aichour, 18, DM/MC

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2017/18   National      1            0       0      0
2018/19   National     25            2       4      2
2019/20   National     36            2       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2      32            3       6      1
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Total                  94            7      10      3    

International:
Algeria U20: 3 caps, 0 goals

Summary: A good season for Aichour, would have played more if he hadn't been injured as much as he was.

Karim Amroune, 19, DM/MC

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2017/18   National      2            0       0      0
2018/19   National      3            0       0      0
2019/20   National     18            1       3      1
2020/21   Ligue 2      25            1       2      1
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Total                  48            2       5      2    

International:
Algeria U20: 2 Caps, 0 Goals

Summary: Had somewhat of a breakthrough season as he got more first team football than ever before and became the 3rd member of our Youth Academy to become capped at U20 level for Algeria.

John Tagoe, 19, CAM/ST

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      13           4       1      0
2018/19   National       8           2       2      0
2019/20   National      15           2       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2        1           1       0      0
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Total                   37           9       3      0

Summary: Barely played and will probably leave next season. I don't have a screenshot of him due to the kerfuffle caused by the screenshot glitch.

Gerard Vincent, DRC/DM, 18

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2018/19   National      4            0       0      0
2019/20   National     21            3       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       7            0       0      0
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Total                  32            3       1      1

Summary: Still on the fringes of the first team despite the promotion to Ligue 2. Will need to kick on a bit to become first team material at this level. Could do with a loan but nobody seems to be interested.

Bastian Bonnel, 16, MC/CAM

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2019/20   National      7            0       1      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       5            1       1      0
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Total                  12            1       2      0

Summary: I gave the technically gifted young CAM a couple of starts in our cup games against lower league sides, during which he scored and became our youngest ever goalscorer in the process. Definitely has the potential to make it at the club one day, with Sami Denis potentially leaving his rise to the first team could come quicker than expected.

Due to the confusion/kerfuffle caused by the recent screenshot bug/issue a lot of screenshots I thought I "had" I actually don't have. So the update isn't as concise and as in-depth as I usually like to do but hopefully by the next one its either fixed or as i'm aware of it I can make sure I get the shots I want.

PaulHartman71 · December 18, 2014

Very saddening to see him leaving especially after he made the step up to Ligue 2 so comfortably, but a 17 year old scoring 25 goals in a season is always going to attract some attention and despite dismissing interest from Ligue 1 FC Nantes, when Olympiakos showed interest it was the Champions League that understandably turned Jardin's head and with his contract expiring in the summer it seemed to make sense to sell him and make £1.1M which will potentially rise to £2.1M after appearances and goals, rather then risking him becoming unhappy and leaving for nothing in the summer. I also managed to put in a 50 percent of next transfer fee in there, so if all goes well and he becomes a success story at Olympiakos and they sell him on then we can profit even more from the deal.

PaulHartman71 · December 18, 2014

A quick look at the transfers I have made following Vincent Jardin's departure to Olympiakos. The first thing to address was of course actually replacing Vincent Jardin, I got in a number of strikers on trials and through doing so discovered that pretty much all of the remaining strikers at the club weren't really that good. As a result of this I actually brought in 3 strikers over the summer, 2 on free transfers and 1 of them I actually paid money for! Mamadou Sambague joined us for £40K following US Avranches relegation, last season Sambague got 18 goals in 29 games at the same level as we are, so hopefully he can repeat this feat again for us. He hasn't exactly been on fire in his first 9 games for us, but he's still got 2 goals in 9 games and 4 assists, showing he has more to his game than just goals - there's certainly more to come from him.

I got in a few CAM's on trial as I needed one as back-up/rotation to Xavier Mercier, however it turned out I found 2 players that were significantly better than him. One of which Sunday Mba I wont show just yet as he's mainly a rotation option, but new first choice CAM is 19 year old Moussa Diallo who has some very nice technical attributes. I've got in a few new CB's to add depth as despite my two CB's having a good season last year they're not really thaaat good and Basilua and Monfay are both probably going to be first team throughout the season, again I don't have screenshots of them as don't feel showing off CBs at this stage of the season is that exciting. Fode Koita and Nolan Roux were both signed on free transfers to battle it out for a place in the first team at ST, at the moment Roux is edging it.

I'll get the main negative out of the way first as once again we've crashed out of the Coupe de la Ligue at the first hurdle, a disappointing 4-2 home loss to LEMANS FC, we'll try again next year! However in the league we've got off to a fantastic start despite not really actually looking all that good at all We were terrible at Bastia on the first day of the season, never really looked like getting anything from it when Sambague popped up with an 85th minute equalizer. Against Dijon again we didn't look all that good, went behind to an early goal and even with Moussa Diallo's 65th minute equalizer we were still getting dominated and I expected us to concede and lose when substitute Nolan Roux got on the end of an 89th minute cross to give us our first win of the season! In our games with OGC Nice and Chamois Niortais we were very poor, struggled to keep possession and never really looked like scoring, OGC Nice especially were so unlucky not to win as they had a ridiculous amount of chances, it wasn't even one of those games where your GK puts in a 10 out of 10 performance to give you the points, they just bottled their chances even missing an 80th minute penalty to give them the win.

Against Tours it looked like a similar story, we went behind to an early goal and looked absolutely terrible until Fode Koita headed in from a corner in the 88th minute to give us what looked like a late equalizer. Yet Sunday Mba had other ideas as the substitute netted a 94th minute winner to send our few away fans absolutely mad. We went 1-0 down EA Guingamp very early on and it seemed at times in the first half that we wouldn't score unless we were given a penalty, thankfully we were given a penalty in the 28th minute and Sambague obliged by putting us level. It looked for most of the second half that we would come away with a point, until the 83rd minute when Nolan Roux put us 2-1 up, we were hanging on and hanging on until Xavier Mercier scored in the 93rd minute to confirm yet another comeback win.

At home to CS Sedan Ardenne, who its worth noting before this game we'd lost on all 4 occasions we'd played them in the French National. Our first Ligue 2 meeting and it looked like a similar pattern would repeat itself, at half-time we sat 2-0 down and could easily have been 3 or 4 down. Again it looked like we wouldn't score unless we got a penalty, luckily again, we got one and in the 61st minute Fode Koita got one back from the spot. In our previous game Xavier Mercier popped up with a goal in the 93rd minute, this time he popped up in the 91st minute to bring us level and I was glad to steal a point from the old National enemy. However there was more drama to be had as in the 94th minute Moussa Diallo smashed one in from a scramble during a corner to gift us a magical 3 points! Our latest game against US Orleans had considerably less late drama, but still despite being 1-0 down at half-time, Nolan Roux equalized, this time as early as the 70th minute to give us a point.

So yeah i'm really confused as to how good the squad is/how well we're actually playing. Of course looking at our results we're in absolutely fantastic form and are actually level on points with the league leaders, only 2nd place by goal difference which is amazing considering its just our 2nd season in Ligue 2. But pretty much all of our points and wins have come from late heroics almost all the time completely against the run of play. I know the saying is that to win ugly is the sign of a good team, but this is something else and is really not good for my health

PaulHartman71 · December 19, 2014

It looked like we'd run our luck and that our early form was a fluke as we lost 3 in a row to begin this stretch of games, however we bounced back and got 2 consecutive 3-2 wins over AS Nancy-Lorraine and Stade de Reims respectively. We followed this up with a 3-1 loss to LEMANS FC, but then managed to win 2-0 twice in a row, including away to Valenciennes in the French Cup. In our latest game we drew 2-2 with Creteil which was disappointing considering we were 2-0 up at half-time.

PaulHartman71 · December 20, 2014

Not the greatest run of games - 2 league wins from 8, with 2 draws and 6 losses. Also went out of the French Cup in the 9th round yet again getting a terribly unlucky draw with Marseille away, pity with it not being at home is that we didn't even really pocket any money from it. Biggest disappointment from this run of games is we haven't been scoring that many which is something we were pretty good at last season, losing a consistent scorer in Jardin has hurt us despite Fode Koita and Mamadou Sambague both being decent strikers that pop up with goals sometimes.

Dropped off the promotion places but still comfortably mid-table.

A decent youth intake but I doubt any of them aside from Josh Darrieux have a chance of making it. Jean Fofana looks kinda average and I actually already have a 16 year old German left back (offered to be by his agent, not from the academy) who is meant to be proper good and will easily get games over this guy. Mallory Parra probabaly wont make it either, he's got some nice stats here and there but I especially don't like that 1 finishing stat, the 3 concentration or the 5 team work.

PaulHartman71 · December 21, 2014

Looking at it, 2 wins, 5 draws and 1 loss isn't all that bad of a run of form, but FIVE games without scoring a single goal ffs?!

With 6 games to go this leaves us in 9th place. We should do better than our 15th place finish last season and it is definitely a gradual improvement, but its so frustrating how we could be properly challenging for promotion if we turned some of these 0-0's into 1 or 2-0 wins especially with some of the chances we get. Definitely lacking a consistent scorer and will look to get a new striker in next season.

PaulHartman71 · December 22, 2014

Pau FC - Season 7: 2021/22 Ligue 2

We ended the season pretty well tbf, 3 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss from our last 6 games and none of them were 0-0 draws which is always a bonus. Highlight probably being our late winner against Montpollier which more or less sent them down to the National, not got anything against them or anything but was nice to win late as we've done so many times this season.

Ended up 9th which is pretty decent, only 6 points off of 3rd place and the promotion that would come with it. Amazing really to think how close we were to getting promoted considering how badly we played and the amount of terrible 0-0 draws we took part in this season. Gives me some hope that we could maybe get promoted next season if we get a consistent goal scorer in the side and keep players fit all year.

Transfers

Already explained most of the signings. Malaury Martin joined in December to add more depth to our central midfield department, Robert Foulon joined in January to give us another option up-front as Nolan Roux slacked off from his early form. Notable departure obviously being Vincent Jardin leaving for Olympiakos - more on that later.

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Decent squad depth, few players that I signed didn't perform as well as I'd hoped. Got a lot of players leaving on frees in the summer so can hopefully get some more players in on frees to add better depth to the team with money in wages their departures will make. Fode Koita probably our best player, 17 goals and 11 assists from 31 starts which was a pretty decent return. Mamadou Sambague the other main striker, started 41 games and got 15 goals and 12 assists - he's pretty good but reminds me of Bouscarrat's first season in the National, he's got an okay amount of goals but can score so many and misses so many easy chances, could easily be a 30 goal a season guy if he took his chances, its not even like he's got bad composure or finishing so i'm not sure why he bottles so many chances all of the time. Moussa Diallo is my new CAM, the 19 year old had a pretty decent first season.

Finances

Less said about this the better really. It is worth noting that if Vincent Jardin had played 30/40 games for Olympiakos and scored 10+ goals we would actually have an extra £1M and wouldn't be in the red, instead Olympiakos haven't even given him a competitive debut, despite turning down my offer for a loan back clause. ********.=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=16"]

Career Overview

Season     League     Position   French Cup   Coupe de la Ligue   Europe    Other
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2015/16    National   14th       8th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2016/17    National   14th       9th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2017/18    National    9th      10th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2018/19    National    6th       9th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2019/20    National    3rd       7th Round     N/A                 N/A       Promoted to Ligue 2! 
2020/21    Ligue 2    15th       9th Round     1st Round           N/A       N/A
2021/22    Ligue 2     9th       9th Round     1st Round           N/A       N/A

PaulHartman71 · December 22, 2014

Sami Denis - MRC/AMRC

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2016/17   National       8           1       2      0
2017/18   National      27           2       0      0
2018/19   National      33           5       1      0
2019/20   National      19           1       2      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       25           4       2      0 
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Total                  112          13       7      0

PaulHartman71 · December 22, 2014

Vincent Jardin, AMLC/ST

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2018/19   National      18           0       4      4
2019/20   National      37           7      31      7
2020/21   Ligue 2       42          10      25      4
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Total                   97          17      60     11

PaulHartman71 · December 22, 2014

Pau FC - Youth Academy

Ahcene Ziane, 21, D/WBRL

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      31           4       0      0
2018/19   National      37           2       1      2
2019/20   National      33           5       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       37           1       0      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       39           2       0      2
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Total                  177          14       1      4    

International: 
Algeria U20: 4 caps, 1 goals

Summary: Another good season at left back for Ziane. One step closer to being a potential club captain as our former #1 GK Petit has now been stripped off the vice-captaincy, leaving Ziane essentially next in line to be vice-captain as he's the next best choice.

Kevin Haller, 21, DC/DM/MC

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      12           1       0      0
2018/19   National      39           2       0      0
2019/20   National      26           1       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       35           0       1      1
2021/22   Ligue 2       36           0       0      0
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Total                  148           4       2      2

Summary: Decent season for Haller.

Abderrahmane Aichour, 19, DM/MC

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      1            0       0      0
2018/19   National     25            2       4      2
2019/20   National     36            2       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2      32            3       6      1
2021/22   Ligue 2      40            3       0      0
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Total                 134           10      10      3    

International:
Algeria U20: 10 caps, 0 goals

Summary: Another good season for the Porn Star moustache himself, stayed injury free more than any of the other academy players this season and thus got the most games. Also now on 10 caps for Algeria's U20 side.

Karim Amroune, 20, DM/MC

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      2            0       0      0
2018/19   National      3            0       0      0
2019/20   National     18            1       3      1
2020/21   Ligue 2      25            1       2      1
2021/22   Ligue 2      29            3       1      0
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Total                  77            5       6      2    

International:
Algeria U20: 4 Caps, 0 Goals

Summary: Injuries prevented him from featuring more. Got 2 more caps for Algeria U20 side.

Gerard Vincent, DRC/DM, 18

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2018/19   National      4            0       0      0
2019/20   National     21            3       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       7            0       0      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       2            0       0      0
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Total                  34            3       1      1

Summary: Very rarely got involved this year. He was actually on the bench like 25/30 times but I rarely make defensive substitutions or if I did I brought on the more experienced player which was never him.

Bastian Bonnel, 17, MC/CAM

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2019/20   National      7            0       1      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       5            1       1      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       1            0       0      0
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Total                  13            1       2      0

Summary: Very rarely featured due to a fair amount of depth at CAM.

Others

Lillian Gauthier was used sparingly as back up for DM and CM, he started in a French Cup game against one of the lower league sides and actually scored. Jorge Pereira the center back and Gauther's back-up Louis Lavie also featured in that game.

Alumni

Vincent Jardin hasn't played a single competitive game for Olympiakos, absolutely criminal from them to waste him like that, haven't even loaned the guy out to anyone else. Be interesting to see what happens if they don't play him again or loan him out next season, will be keeping tabs.
Sami Denis is still a free agent and will most likely retire shortly as a result of not picking up any interest from other clubs

PaulHartman71 · December 23, 2014

Little incite to how poor we are in comparison to other clubs in the league

Oh and Olympiakos can **** right off!

Hope one day if/when we get to Europe we can smash the pricks. I'll show them higher quality players!!

PaulHartman71 · December 23, 2014

:mad:

PaulHartman71 · December 24, 2014

I only made 2 transfers during the summer, I purchased a much younger Goalkeeper on a free to provide back-up and eventually become our new #1, however Kouakbi got injured in pre-season so the new guy has already become #1. I also got in a free agent striker 22 year old Alpha Mbaye who has spent his entire career in Lille's reserves.

A mixed bag but overall a pretty disappointing start to the season. 1 win, 3 draws and 2 losses in our first 6 league games. The first two games were worrying as Alpha Mbaye failed to hit the net in either. He grabbed his first goal for us in a 3-2 win over CS Sedan Ardennes which saw us progress past the first round of the Coupe de la Ligue for the very first time. He then bagged a hat-trick in our first league win of the season over AS Nancy-Lorraine, just when things looked like they were going as planned - disaster struck!

We did progress to the 3rd round of the Coupe de la Ligue after a win over FC Istres in extra time, but aside from that it wasn't great stuff really in our other two league games which ended up as draws. We should have lost really at Stade Lavallois but for a last minute equalizer from Sambague which was very remnant of our last minute salvos last season.

6 points from 6 games, not the end of the world but not the kind of start I was hoping for. Need to kick on and do better in our next run of games.

PaulHartman71 · December 26, 2014

3 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses later and we're still slacking a bit in the league. As a result of a penalty shoot-out victory over Havre AC we have gone through to the 4th round of the Coupe de la Ligue. We're also through in the French Cup after winning 2-0 against USBCO.

A lot further off the play-offs than i'd like but despite being 13th we are only a few wins away from a similar position to where we finished last season. I'm hoping a good run of form can see us shoot up the table shortly.

PaulHartman71 · December 26, 2014

That's one hell of a wage budget cut to make mid-season ffs

PaulHartman71 · December 27, 2014

Some bad news as i'm beginning to think that Mbaye might be a very injury prone player and will likely never live up to the potential my staff and I think he has. Bit disappointing really.

Some good news as despite our ropey form and less than impressive start to Ligue 2 this season we have been given the award for best team in Ligue 2 in the 2014 calendar year. Would've thought the French press would hate me/us as I never give them anything always just sending my assistant

And the most exciting news we've had in a long time...

We've finally got a massive HOME DRAW in one the Cups. This game should surely see us break our gate receipts record and get at least 100/150K into the clubs finances which is much needed. Hopefully we can give Marseille a decent game as well, they're only sitting 13th in Ligue 1 and in dreadful form having scored the least amount of goals in the entire league, i'm hoping for a 0-0, keep them at bay for an extra half an hour and then knock them out on penalties, then get PSG at home in the 10th round I can dream right

PaulHartman71 · December 27, 2014

Absolutely gutting When they missed that penalty I thought for sure we'd hold them and that them missing the penalty in extra time would swing it my way. But to lose it in the 122nd minute ffs! I couldn't even argue against their being that much injury time because Qasmi was down for ages in the second half of the extra time. Still so gutting to not get to penalties though

PaulHartman71 · December 27, 2014

Just noticed i've messed up and not taken screenshots after the 24th round of games had finished playing. I'm close enough to having played 32 league games now that I might as well just wait until a few more games when i've played the 32 to post my next update. I did manage to get one of yet another injury to one of my main strikers, this one being a really really bad one.

PaulHartman71 · December 28, 2014

I wont go into too much detail as their are a lot of games covered in this update but a relatively decent yet still somewhat inconsistent part of the season has lead to us being in an outside shot of promotion with 6 games left. We've got 2 massive games left, one away to Tours and the other at home to LEMANSFC, the other 4 games I all see as relatively winnable games so it will be down to how we fair against 2 other promotion rivals that determines whether we go up. I feel like we could do it but as we started the season so poorly we are relying on 4 other teams to slip up a few times which might not happen.

The board still doing their best to keep us from being too much in the **** financially.

PaulHartman71 · December 28, 2014

Pau FC - Season 8: 2022/23 Ligue 2

Aside from the 3-1 away loss to Tours it was a fantastic end to the season with 12 points from our next 5 games and remaining undefeated in those last 5 games. Was it enough for us to get promoted?!...

Nope. It was the loss away to Tours that did it, if we'd won that game we would have done it. A shame but perhaps a sign that we're not quite there and ready for Ligue 1. In all fairness considering our resources, finances etc we've done pretty well to challenge for promotion, but I know with the starting 11/subs that we've got when everyone is fit that we're good enough to go up. If we had Jardin last season or especially this season I have no doubt we would've gone up, to see him barely even playing for Olympiakos makes this even more frustrating. A lot of injuries to our strikers didn't help our cause either.

Transfers

Two first team signings, with Mbaye becoming first choice, whilst not being better than the other strikers he has much higher potential and being so young I expected him to increase a lot throughout the season. More on that later. Douichier was signed to compete with Kouakbi for the number 1 spot in goal, but it wasn't much of a competition really with Douichier being comfortably better than him the moment he signed. Weber is an Austrian CM that has very high potential, probably won't see much of him for a few years yet.

Moussa Diallo our CAM was by far the highlight of the season, 16 goals and 9 assists for him and he ended up joint top scorer, which probably says more about our strikers than anything else but was still a crucial part of team. Our best midfielder aside from Diallo would be Abderrahmane Aichour from the academy, scored 7 goals himself this season which is pretty good for a central midfielder whose primary strengths lie in defending and not attacking. Alpha Mbaye was very good when he was fit, which unfortunately was very rare. Constantly injured and constantly struggled to get match fit when he wasn't injured, is also a very inconsistent player - just a very frustrating player in general, hoping he can stay fit more next year if we are to go up. Fode Koita ended up joint top scorer with Diallo, decent player but is only getting worse with age and actually surprised me by scoring as many as he did. Mamadou Sambague's goal scoring record has always been remarkably average even for a 2nd choice striker, but one thing he does do is get a **** load of exists - 10 goals and 17 assists in 43 starts, not a fantastic record but he offers a lot more than goals which is important to the team. Robert Foulon had a pretty good goal scoring record himself until he broke his leg, hoping he can recover and chip in with a few goals from the bench again next season.

Finances

Just so so bad =61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=16"]

Career Overview

Season     League     Position   French Cup   Coupe de la Ligue   Europe    Other
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2015/16    National   14th       8th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2016/17    National   14th       9th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2017/18    National    9th      10th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2018/19    National    6th       9th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2019/20    National    3rd       7th Round     N/A                 N/A       Promoted to Ligue 2! 
2020/21    Ligue 2    15th       9th Round     1st Round           N/A       N/A
2021/22    Ligue 2     9th       9th Round     1st Round           N/A       N/A
2022/23    Ligue 2     5th       8th Round     4th Round           N/A       N/A

PaulHartman71 · December 28, 2014

Pau FC - Youth Academy

Ahcene Ziane, 22, D/WBRL

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=9"]End of Season 2 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=13"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=21"]End of Season 4 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=10"]End of Season 2 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      31           4       0      0
2018/19   National      37           2       1      2
2019/20   National      33           5       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       37           1       0      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       39           2       0      2
2022/23   Ligue 2       40           4       0      1
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Total                  217          18       1      5    

International: 
Algeria U20: 4 caps, 1 goals

Summary: First guy to break the 200 appearance landmark. Does his best to limit the amount of games he plays by constantly getting suspensions through too many yellow cards.

Kevin Haller, 22, DC/DM/MC

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=11"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=22"]End of Season 4 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0"]End of Season 1 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      12           1       0      0
2018/19   National      39           2       0      0
2019/20   National      26           1       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       35           0       1      1
2021/22   Ligue 2       36           0       0      0
2022/23   Ligue 2       36           1       1      1
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Total                  184           5       3      3

Summary: His standard 1 month injury prevented him from featuring in more games.

Abderrahmane Aichour, 20, DM/MC

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=10"]End of Season 2 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=20"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=12"]End of Season 1 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      1            0       0      0
2018/19   National     25            2       4      2
2019/20   National     36            2       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2      32            3       6      1
2021/22   Ligue 2      40            3       0      0
2022/23   Ligue 2      39            3       7      3
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Total                 173           13      17      6    

International:
Algeria U20: 14 caps, 0 goals

Summary: A great season for Aichour, added 4 more caps to his U20 Algeria collection

Karim Amroune, 21, DM/MC

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=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=23"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=15"]End of Season 1 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      2            0       0      0
2018/19   National      3            0       0      0
2019/20   National     18            1       3      1
2020/21   Ligue 2      25            1       2      1
2021/22   Ligue 2      29            3       1      0
2022/23   Ligue 2      45            4       0      0
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Total                 122            9       6      2    

International:
Algeria U20: 4 Caps, 0 Goals

Summary: Pretty sure he featured in every single game of our campaign. Definitely room to improve for him but my staff do reckon he has the potential to do so.

Gerard Vincent, DRC/DM, 20

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=25"]End of Season 2 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=26"]End of Season 1 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2018/19   National      4            0       0      0
2019/20   National     21            3       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       7            0       0      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       2            0       0      0
2022/23   Ligue 2       3            0       0      0
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Total                  37            3       1      1

Summary: Injuries meant he barely featured, although even if he'd been fit more he'd only have been on the bench anyway.

Bastian Bonnel, 18, MC/CAM

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2019/20   National      7            0       1      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       5            1       1      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       1            0       0      0
2022/23   Ligue 2       0            0       0      0
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Total                  13            1       2      0

Summary: Wasn't good enough to warrant inclusion in any games, even in the cups. I'd be amazed if he made it now, not really improved physically from when he was 14, 2 strength is just awful even for a 5ft 2 and 9 stone guy. Needs to hit the gym.

Others

Emergency back up utility midfielder Yanis Bats got a start in the French Cup and then a start and a sub game in the league, he actually scored and got MOTM in 1 start and iirc he scored the winner. Took him off the actual updates a while back as expected him to want to leave when there was no first team football on offer but if he's happy to stay as a pretty cheap back-up player i'll probably keep him around.
21 year old DM Jonathan Lebrun started 2 games in the league when we were desperate and he was painfully average.
21 year old DLC/DM Maxime Huguet also saw 1 start in the league when we had an injury crisis, wasn't great really although he does appear to have a pretty sweet lip piercing.
I'm not really sure why Mamadou Diouf is still content to stay at the club, he's 23 now and has barely played any first team football in his tenure. I suppose the 600p/w wages for being nothing more than a back-up bench player might be why, but still seems odd that he hasn't requested first team football at all. Got 8 sub appearances when I was looking to close games out and make defensive subs.
Lillian Gauthier an 18 year old DM prospect saw 1 sub game in the league and 1 in the Cup, he scored in the Cup which might also have been a winner iirc.

Alumni

Vincent Jardin started 4 times for Olympiakos and got 2 sub games, getting just an assist. Had an average rating of 7.22 though which is pretty decent, I think they might be playing him at AML or CAM. Disappointing that he's still not getting the first team football he needs to develop especially when we're crying out for a striker as consistent and good as him at this level.
Sami Denis did actually manage to find a club, Genets Anglet of the CFA C. By the looks of it he is a regular starter for them which is nice to see, though it looks like he's been pretty crap really judging by his stats and average rating.

PaulHartman71 · December 29, 2014

Quick look at the transfers I made. Despite their massive decrease of my wage budget they actually put it back up to 90K or so when I told them I'd challenge for promotion. These weren't the best players I found, more the best I could afford. I had so many players on trial that were better than what I ended up with but I just couldn't afford either their wages or their agent fees/signing on fees. Another "big" boost to our measly transfer and wage budget was the departure of Gonzalo Rojas who has been first choice right back/left back cover for a while now. He was/is a quality player and I knew I wouldn't be able to replace him with someone of equal quality, but 275K was too much to turn down for a right back in our financial situation, got the potential to go up to 500K in clauses and that.

Timothy Agu was the best RB I could get in to replace/cover with Qasmi, he's not great but he'll do. Ilyes Chaibi is a striker, he's chipped in with a couple of goals but whether he will continue as first choice remains to be seen. Samuel Ally is a CB, at a first glance at our fixtures you'd have probably assumed he was a striker, he's got 3 goals in 7 games, his 16 heading coming in handy! Jean-Jacques Boumai was signed to add a bit of depth to CM and CAM. Mattheo Marchand to add depth to DC/DM/MC and finally ex-Arsenal man himself Nacer Barazite to provide competition for CAM, he's only made 1 sub appearance so far though as he got injured in first match.

We've yet again progressed through the first two rounds of the Coupe de la Ligue, under very jammy circumstances I will admit. A penalty shoot out victory after a very uneventful game with Bastia, and then a 1-0 win in extra time over FC Istres who finished the match with 10 men, had 1 player sent off on the 70th minute and then another hobbled off with an injury in the 104th minute - would've been pissed if we still hadn't got the win

3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses from our first 8 league games isn't terrible form and isn't terribly good either. We've not really found a consistent goal scorer and i'm actually struggling to pick 2 strikers to start, Sambague hasn't been assisting like last season and Diallo hasn't stepped up in the same way he did last season either.

We sit 10th place but I feel like its almost worthless looking at the league table so early into the season as this league is so open it can all change in a few games anyway.

Oh and...

My Chairman is looking to step down, it doesn't appear to be anything exciting as rumour has it a director will take over, but if it results in some of the debt being cleared then its certainly win win Just hope i'm not sacked!

PaulHartman71 · December 30, 2014

And then just days later our finances were boosted even more...

So for the first time in as long as I can remember our finances actually look pretty healthy

PaulHartman71 · December 31, 2014

Went out to Ligue 1 opposition once again in the Coupe de la Ligue, losing 2-1 to Evian TG. Got an easy draw in the French Cup, only managed to win 1-0 which was a bit scary, serves me right for putting a heavily weakened team of youth/fringe players out! 3 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses in the league, the highlight definitely being the comeback win against Valenciennes, we'd been 2-0 up, looked like we blew it to 3-2 but then pulled it back to win 4-3 late on.

This run of games now puts us in 9th place, 5 points off the 3rd place we'd need to gain promotion. Lost more games than I would have liked at this stage but the league does look the weakest i've seen it so far in relation to teams that are significantly stronger than us, we were comfortably better than Havre last season and finished a place above Chamois Niortais and neither of those teams particularly scare me. LEMANSFC the main threat, the 3 that came down from Ligue 1 - Stade de Reims, Metz and Dijon have all started the season terribly and don't look like Ligue 1 quality sides which is massively beneficial in our promotion bid.

PaulHartman71 · December 31, 2014

haha that's quality how not only did we retain this award, but when we won it last year they said the fans were excited and pleased that we won it. this year they don't give a ****

PaulHartman71 · January 2, 2015

Our cup run was ended by Ligue 1 opposition once more, this time Bastia, was really gutting since we were actually 2-0 up then blew it late on, held out for penalties, thought we could do it cause don't think i've lost a shoot-out yet but it wasn't to be. Elsewhere in the league we've actually been doing pretty well, Diallo's stepped up once again and its no surprise that his improvement in form has seen an improvement in our team. 4 wins, 3 draws and just the 1 loss to Auxuerre in our last 8 league games. As our transfer budget retain percentage is so low despite getting that money in from Jardin's clause fee and a new chairman, we still didn't really have all that much to spend, we did need another striker though even just for rotation due to injuries, so Cesar Pavon a young Spanish striker from Atletico Madrid's C team was signed on loan - in his first game for the club he scored a brace to help us beat Nice 3-2.

The loss to Auxerre proved slightly costly but we're only 7 points off even the top spot, and Auxerre aside, we still have games against every other team that is above us, so it is in our hands if you look at it like that.

deltablue · January 2, 2015

What do you reckon your chances are?

PaulHartman71 · January 2, 2015

It will go to the wire I reckon but we do have what it takes to do it if can keep majority of our starters injury-free.

Puni · January 4, 2015

I'm following this with keen interest, I've always wanted to play a lower league save in France.

PaulHartman71 · January 4, 2015

A pretty good run of form late into the season, 5 wins (including 4 in a row), 1 draw and 2 losses. Both 3-1 losses were very disappointing for different reasons, the 3-1 loss to Havre was bad as they're one of our main rivals for promotion, by beating us they've basically guaranteed promotion and since they're 10 points clear with 6 games to go they've pretty much gone up as champions barring a horrendous choke. The loss to US Concarneau was disappointing because whilst they're not thaaat bad its really a game we should at least be coming away with a draw from. Loan signing Cesar Pavon had a fantastic spell of form which saw him win Ligue 2 Player of the Month, when I noticed his contract was up at the end of the season I wasted no time in getting him to sign on.

As for the league table...

Its tight. Very tight. Our last 6 games are by no means easy, but we play the 3 teams currently underneath us so at least its in our hands, if we can beat them then we can go up, pretty simple really. Our fixture list is:

CS Sedan Ardennes (A)

Chamois Niortais (H)

AS Nancy-Lorraine (A)

FC Lorient (H)

Clermont Foot (A)

Stade Brestois (H)

I'd usually take a point away from home against either CS Sedan Ardennes and Clermont Foot, but i'm not sure if we can afford to do so. Chamois Niortais we should be beating at home, would be gutting to lose it, I guess I would take a draw usually but in this late run in for promotion I don't think we can afford to just in case. FC Lorient and Stade Brestios are two must win games, both not great and at home, anything less than 6 points from those two and we probably don't deserve to go up. AS Nancy Lorraine away again isn't the easiest of games and usually a draw wouldn't be a disaster but i'm not sure how many games we can afford to drop points in. I think we need to win in at least 2 of the 3 games against the sides just below us, draw the other one, then beat FC Lorient and Stade Brestois then maybe a draw against AS Nancy-Lorraine would be enough to go up. 14 points from 18, easier said than done though right? I think realistically though anything less than 12 points and we probably wont make it, we can probably only afford to lose one game. Losing two out of the 6 would be pretty bad and losing 3 is an unthinkable disaster at this point, hopefully I haven't jinxed it!

PaulHartman71 · January 6, 2015

Pau FC - Season 9: 2023/24 Ligue 2

Really not promotion form material in our last 6 games but despite losing 3 we still managed to go up and finish 2nd. The 4-0 win over Chamois Niortais was a big win especially as we'd just lost to CS Sedan Ardennes, we did go into the game against Stade Brestois having to win after failing to get anything from our game against Clermont Foot, but it ended up being a pretty comfortable victory. Ultimately as I said in a previous update the quality in this league this year was pretty poor really, we weren't great this season nor as good/consistent as I would have liked but the rest were just as poor/worse which resulted in us getting to go up.

Transfers

Only notable departure was Rojas to Tours FC, was a first team player that could have made the step up to Ligue 1 probably but at the time cheaper replacements were easy to come by and we needed the money really. Timothy Agu came in on a free to replace him and did well enough. Chaibi was a decent rotation/back-up striker, Marchand was a decent rotation/back-up CB/DM but i'm not sure how happy he is to sit on the bench long term. Samuel Ally came in and did a great job at CB, Jean-Jacques Boumal did well as a first team/rotation CM/CAM option. Nacer Barazite turned out to be a waste of a signing really, was very rarely fit and did pretty **** whenever he did play. Cesar Pavon the loan signing in January was great when fit, was signed on a BOSMAN/free and will be with us again next season.

Moussa Diallo was once again the stand out player, the 21 year old managed 10 assists and 20 goals from 42 starts, he also bagged himself numerous end of season awards including Ligue 2 Player of the Year. Cesar Pavon came in on loan from Atletico Madrid C and did a great job, ending up with 9 goals and 5 assists from 14 games, as said above we've secured him on a free transfer for next season. Bebeto Basilua and new signing Samuel Ally had decent seasons at CB. Abderrahmane Aichour did well at CM, as did his Algerian compatriot Ahcene Ziane at LB. Alpha Mbaye had another injury hit season, but did manage 11 goals and 4 assists from his 29 appearances, only 20 of them actual starts.

Finances

They don't look great at the moment but when all the Ligue 1 money kicks in we should be fine.

Ligue 1 Expectations

I'm not really too sure what to expect from Ligue 1 really, we've never beaten a Ligue 1 side in a cup competition but we have given a couple of them very close scares a few times. My main concern is how weak Ligue 2 was this season and that we could potentially found out a lot even by mid-table/relegation battling sides even when we do strengthen in the summer. Since the game started PSG have won 9 of the 11 titles, with Lyon and Monaco both getting one each. I expect to be outclassed by those 3 sides, PSG especially, but hoping we can avoid regular high losses to any other sides in the division.

One other cause for concern is our stadium. Our capacity is 13,966 with just 7,166 of this being seated. Ligue 1 regulations state that the minimum Stadium Seating capacity is 17,000 - our entire ground doesn't even cover that, let alone our seating capacity I assume long term they're going to have to build a new stadium as I can't see us being able to expand the stadium to the point of having 17,000 seats, perhaps they can but I think long term we're going to be in a new stadium. Obviously we'll be in Ligue 1 so can expect higher crowds but we actually only averaged even this season a crowd of 3,802 - we only managed 7,392 when we were drawn at home to Marseille in the French Cup last year and that's by far our record crowd. I assume we'll be ground sharing with another club that has a stadium that big in the mean time, the most logical one geographically would surely be Bordeaux - although who knows what might happen. That definitely seems like the most likely option though.=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=16"]

Career Overview

Season     League     Position   French Cup   Coupe de la Ligue   Europe    Other
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2015/16    National   14th       8th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2016/17    National   14th       9th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2017/18    National    9th      10th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2018/19    National    6th       9th Round     N/A                 N/A       N/A
2019/20    National    3rd       7th Round     N/A                 N/A       Promoted to Ligue 2! 
2020/21    Ligue 2    15th       9th Round     1st Round           N/A       N/A
2021/22    Ligue 2     9th       9th Round     1st Round           N/A       N/A
2022/23    Ligue 2     5th       8th Round     4th Round           N/A       N/A
2023/24    Ligue 2     2nd       10th Round    3rd Round           N/A       Promoted to Ligue 1!

PaulHartman71 · January 6, 2015

Pau FC - Youth Academy

Ahcene Ziane, 23, D/WBRL

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=9"]End of Season 2 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=13"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=21"]End of Season 4 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=10"]End of Season 2 Profile

End of Season 8 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      31           4       0      0
2018/19   National      37           2       1      2
2019/20   National      33           5       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2       37           1       0      0
2021/22   Ligue 2       39           2       0      2
2022/23   Ligue 2       40           4       0      1
2023/24   Ligue 2       43           8       0      2
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Total                  260          26       1      7    

International: 
Algeria U20: 4 caps, 1 goals

Summary: A good season for the Algerian LB, will be interesting to see if he can make the step up to Ligue 1. At worst long term he could probably be a rotation/back-up option for both full back positions.

Kevin Haller, 23, DC/DM/MC

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=11"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=22"]End of Season 4 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0"]End of Season 1 Profile

End of Season 8 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      12           1       0      0
2018/19   National      39           2       0      0
2019/20   National      26           1       1      1
2020/21   Ligue 2       35           0       1      1
2021/22   Ligue 2       36           0       0      0
2022/23   Ligue 2       36           1       1      1
2023/24   Ligue 2       37           1       1      0
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Total                  221           6       7      3

Summary: Decent season for the DM, obviously picked up his token 1 month injury again.

Abderrahmane Aichour, 21, DM/MC

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=10"]End of Season 2 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=20"]End of Season 3 Profile

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Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      1            0       0      0
2018/19   National     25            2       4      2
2019/20   National     36            2       0      0
2020/21   Ligue 2      32            3       6      1
2021/22   Ligue 2      40            3       0      0
2022/23   Ligue 2      39            3       7      3
2023/24   Ligue 2      41            6       4      2
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Total                 214           19      21      8    

International:
Algeria U20: 14 caps, 0 goals

Summary: An even better season for Aichour this season, hoping he can make the step up to Ligue 1 next season.

Karim Amroune, 22, DM/MC

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=18"]End of Season 2 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=23"]End of Season 3 Profile

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=15"]End of Season 1 Profile

Season    Division   Appearances  Assists  Goals   MOTM  
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2017/18   National      2            0       0      0
2018/19   National      3            0       0      0
2019/20   National     18            1       3      1
2020/21   Ligue 2      25            1       2      1
2021/22   Ligue 2      29            3       1      0
2022/23   Ligue 2      45            4       0      0
2023/24   Ligue 2      34            5       0      1
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Total                 156           14       6      3    

International:
Algeria U20: 4 Caps, 0 Goals

Summary: Decent enough season, didn't feature as regularly this season due to better alternatives - in Ligue 1 I can see him appearing even less and being much more of a back-up player. I'm not sure how happy/patient he'll be about this.

Gerard Vincent, DRC/DM, 21

=61590018&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=25"]End of Season 2 Profile