Auxerre have invited Maxime Chanot to put his views to Will Still. Chanot is a pundit at RMC Sport. He called the coach overrated in April 2026, then tactically limited in late August, after two matches on the bench.
I read that at the chip shop, in the smell of the oil. I put my weekly down.
In 1980, when a journalist wrote badly of a manager, the manager read the paper. Sometimes he didn’t. He won the following Sunday, and that settled it. Nobody travelled. Nobody filmed.
Here, Chanot went to watch a training session. He says it was very well organised by Will Still and his staff. He told the story behind the visit on the After Foot show. Then the exchange will be published on social media. The disagreement has become a programme. I’m not criticising. I’m comparing.
Chanot was a defender at New York City FC. He won seventy-two caps for Luxembourg. He knows what a dressing room is. He says he liked Will Still a lot at Reims, less at Lens and Southampton. That is a nuanced view. I met few of them on television.
He also said: “I sensed a guy who knows the very highest level.” A Belgian coach praised by the man who doubted him. I have nothing against it. I note that in my day this was read on the letters page, three weeks late, and there was time to digest it.
Marcel, at my club the post was whatever the club delegate forgot in his folder.
Note that I’m not against progress. I’m against this progress, the kind where a criticism is settled before the match instead of during it.
Auxerre are tenth in Ligue 1. They play at Rennes on Sunday at 5.15pm. Not at three o’clock. Well. It’s the times.
It’s true, we checked: RMC Sport.
