Team News

March 28th, 2008

Ones for the future

By: Shazback | Comments 3 Comments

Rennes is one of the hotbeds of French football youth formation, and has been considered by the French Football Federation and the Ligue de Football Professionelle as the best youth setup for the last 3 years. So here’s a lowdown on the kids’ seasons so far :

Yohann Lasimant, Yacine Brahimi, Yann Mvila and Damien “Not […]

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March 21st, 2008

Departure imminent!

By: Shazback | Comments 2 Comments

Well, it’s a well-known story in the modern game : a good player comes through the ranks of a mid-table side, playing well, and before he’s managed to lift the team that fed him to greater success, he’s already leaving for greener pastures. Rennes isn’t an exception to this rule, and with the best youth […]

Category Category: Team News
March 8th, 2008

Liveblog Rennes-PSG

By: Shazback | Comments 1 Comment

Hi, welcome to my first liveblog!
Well, being late (as usual), I’m not prepared, so it’ll be a bit hectic.
No major surprises in Rennes line-up :
Luzi
Fanni, Hansson, Mensah, Traoré
Leroy, Mbia, Lemoine, Thomert
Pagis
Briand
And Le Guen hasn’t rang any changes on Paris’ side :
Landreau
Ceara, Yepes, Camara, Sakho
Souza, Clément, Chantôme, Armand
Diané, Pauléta
In fact, I just noticed that Rothen […]

Category Category: Team News
February 3rd, 2008

Silly, silly, silly month is over.

By: Shazback | Comments No Comments

Whilst the EPL has splashed £150M (that’s £7,5M per club, and since Man U and Arsenal didn’t spend a penny, £8,3M per club for the other 18) during January 2008, French clubs were more conservative. With a grand total of 27 buys (real buys, not loans), the french mercato wasn’t the most exciting one ever, […]

Category Category: Transfers, Team News
January 16th, 2008

Funny things about Rennes-Marseille

By: Shazback | Comments 4 Comments

Whilst I was watching Rennes-Marseille, I was surprised by the large amount of trivia that the commentators were talking about. So I decided to have a little look of my own on what was strange in this game that happened only one day short of a year after the last Rennes-Marseille in Ligue 1, also […]



January 15th, 2008

How do you say “We don’t need you” in swedish?

By: Shazback | Comments 3 Comments

Rennes’ Swedish link is something that almost became a tradition. What I mean by “almost” is that after two great players : Källström (now playing for Lyon)and Isaksson (now at Manchester City), there were two not quite so great players that joined : Hansson and Edman.
Now, two good players might seem a bit of a […]

Category Category: Transfers, Team News
January 14th, 2008

Sour grapes still make wine

By: Shazback | Comments 5 Comments

After a 3-0 win against Martigues in the Coupe de France, it was back to Ligue 1 and business as Marseille came to Brittany. In fact, it was exactly 364 days since Marseille had won 2-0 for the 20th match of Ligue 1 2006/07 at Rennes, with goals from Cissé (58′) and Maoulida (90′+2′), after […]

December 19th, 2007

These are rock hard times.

By: Shazback | Comments 8 Comments

There’s no denying it, I loved Dréossi. He seemed to be a good manager, with an eye for talent young and old, an ability to develop rough gems into great players, and a great catalyst for group spirit. Well, All that can only keep you in the job for so long when you’ve only got […]

Category Category: Team News
November 28th, 2007

Ich bin keine Hamburger

By: Shazback | Comments 8 Comments

Hamburger SV might have one of the funniest names in professional football, but their squad is no laughing matter. Sitting on the last step of the Bundesliga podium, Huub Steven’s squad are hoping for a second win that would put them top of Group D, and probably qualify them for the next round of the […]

November 27th, 2007

The Lyon’s share

By: Shazback | Comments 1 Comment

Perhaps Lyon’s domination of Ligue 1 isn’t down to luck. Coming off a shock defeat against Marseille, I was hoping Rennes could pull off a good result against a side that looked friable. But with 4 defeats on the run, Wiltord probably wished for better circumstances to meet his orgy friends…

Hatem Ben Arfa left 5 […]

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