ChristopheVAFC

He's often very late, especially...

I think there will be a lot of changes next summer, and we'll have to learn some important lessons from this season, which has been very, very complicated for you...

sad for you my friend...

Hello friends, I hope you're well. I wish you a good match and I hope you'll see things a bit better on the pitch. I'm thinking of you and I'll be watching the Valenciennes game. COYS !

Hello friends, I hope you're well! First of all, I hope you enjoy the game against Wolves this afternoon. I'll be watching the game from Valenciennes! I wanted to share with you the National Championship standings between yesterday and today. We're still ranked 5th but we're getting closer to 1st place. Yesterday, Nancy and Le Mans won, but there was a match between Orléans and Boulogne that ended in a 1-1 draw. The race will be intense right up to the final day, and we'll need to pick up as many points as possible. The home games against Boulogne, Le Mans and Nancy will be crucial. We're not giving up here at Valenciennes! Allez VA !

Win 1-0 tonight 😍😍

1-0 for Valenciennes 😍😍 40' ingame

Live in Stade du Hainaut. 15' - 0-0. Allez VA !

In this final sprint, we have the good fortune to welcome some highly-ranked clubs to the Stade du Hainaut (US Boulogne / Le Mans FC / AS Nancy). At home, we'll need to win as many games as possible, bearing in mind that the day we don't play will be just as important. (x) Current team ranking March 2025: (10) - FC Sochaux Montbéliard (Home) (6) - Dijon FCO (Away) (2) - US Boulogne sur Mer (Home) April 2025: (7) - FC Bourg en Bresse (Away) (13) - Quevilly Rouen (Home) ** EXEMPT - VAFC (no match) ** (3) Le Mans FC (Home) May 2025: (15) - Paris 13 (Away) (1) - AS Nancy (Home) (8) Aubagne (Away) Winning, winning and more winning must be our main objective until the end of the season.

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Hello friends, I hope you're well? Today is match day for Valenciennes, who welcome FC Sochaux Montbélliard to the Stade du Hainaut. We're keeping up the momentum and moving forward to close in on the top 3 places in the league. Kick-off is at 19:00 French time and the match can be followed via the Youtube link below: Have a great day, folks! Allez Valenciennes !

There are 9 games left before the end of the season: March 2025: VAFC - FC Sochaux Montbelliard Dijon FCO - VAFC VAFC - US Boulogne sur Mer April 2025: FC Bourg en Bresse - VAFC VAFC - Quevilly Rouen EXEMPT - VAFC (no match) VAFC - Le Mans FC May 2025: Paris 13 - VAFC VAFC - AS Nancy Aubagne - VAFC If you finish 1st or 2nd, you go straight up to Ligue 2. If you finish 3rd, it's a two-legged play-off against the 16th-placed team in Ligue 2. In my opinion, anything's possible - we'll just have to win as many games as possible to finish as high as we can at the end of the season.

A 2-0 win away to Villefranche this evening. I didn't see the game, but it's a reward for the team's improvement over the last few weeks. We need to keep moving forward!

Merci mon ami !

Hello folks, Match day for Valenciennes as they travel to mid-table Villefranche. We're going to try and avoid another draw this evening and win the game if we want to stay in the competition. The match kicks off at 19:30 French time. Live link to the match: Have a great afternoon friends !

The €5 million was not paid in one go. 1.5 million in 2025 1.5 million in 2026 2 million in 2027

It's true that last year was a great season for you, with a well-deserved return to the Premier League, even if you had a bit of a scare going into the play-offs. I enjoyed watching your team, which was always dangerous and scored a lot, with players who also enjoyed themselves on the pitch. It was a determined team with one objective: to win as much as possible. I'd like to see that kind of spirit again next season and I wish you all the best.

Since SR's arrival at Valenciennes, frankly, there have been a lot of positive things, in terms of relations with local politicians, partners and sponsors, and the club has also improved a lot in terms of administration and communication. The only problem is the sporting side, which doesn't necessarily keep up and which takes up more time, because with a good sportsman, we'd be a lot better this season.

I met him last Wednesday at a meeting between the supporters' groups and the club, and what made him stand out was the fact that he lives in Dubai. Of course, he speaks French and he's a shareholder in Sport Républic, but we wonder why he's agreed to be chairman of VAFC when he won't always be there. As far as the leagues are concerned, we have : Ligue 1 Ligue 2 National 1 (where Valenciennes currently play) National 2 National 3 (where Valenciennes' B team plays) I don't think the chairman has the power to change everything for us. We're lucky to have an incredible CEO who does a great job for the club. We'll see what happens next in any case.

Interview with Valenciennes' new chairman, Dirk Gerkens, who replaces Henrik Juhel Kraft, in the local press today: VAFC: ‘Be as French-speaking as possible’, Dirk Gerkens, a new boss and a change of direction Dirk Gerkens, who was appointed chairman of VAFC a month ago, spent the week in Valenciennes and discovered the club from every angle. He also confirmed VA's new strategy, already apparent during the last mercato: to be as French-speaking as possible. This is not a retrograde step, but rather a way of taking into account the mistakes that have been made. After the all-out recruitment since the arrival of Sport Republic, we already felt a change during the last mercato with the arrival of French players, who do not arrive in unknown territory by setting foot at Valenciennes. The appointment of Dirk Gerkens is a step in the same direction. There was a reflection on the fact that we had to be as French as possible, as French-speaking as possible, and that was the main motivation for the change of chairman,’ explains Dirk Gerkens, who was born in Brussels 56 years ago and is perfectly fluent in French. It's a way of correcting what has been done, because it's important to speak French, or to be motivated to speak French. This is what led to the arrival at Valenciennes of the man who spent most of his career at the head of television channels in Hungary and Bulgaria, where he now runs a media group owned by Serbian Dragan Solak, the big boss of Sport Republic, the owner of VAFC. Dirk Gerkens is involved in the purchase of sports rights, and is no stranger to the world of football. ‘Not going up again this year would be a disappointment’. ‘There are similarities between managing a media group and a football club. On the one hand, you have to choose the right programmes, and on the other, you have to choose the right players,’ stresses the man who says he is privately passionate about football. In both cases, there is a requirement for results, and the new boss was quick to point this out. ‘Sport Republic came here to climb up to Ligue 1, not to drop down to the National. We're going to continue to invest and put in the resources. We don't want to waste any time getting there. The week he spent at Valenciennes, at the heart of the club, including its former presidents and supporters, as well as the local economic and political environment, reinforced his belief that there was everything to succeed. ‘Yes, not to go up this year would be a disappointment,’ he says. That's all in French and in all honesty.

Hello folks. Another draw yesterday against FC Versailles, 0-0, no progress with draws... We had quite a few chances yesterday but we weren't successful and the opposing goalkeeper had a good game too. If we want to go up to Ligue 2, we'll have to do much better in the next few games. Allez VA!

Hello my friend. FC Versailles are on a good run of form at the moment with 3 wins in a row and we have to be very vigilant tonight because it's not going to be easy. FC Versailles are not having a good season, but in recent weeks things have been going a bit better for them. As far as the National championship is concerned, 2 teams will go straight up to Ligue 2 (the 1st and 2nd in the championship) and the 3rd will play a two-legged play-off against the 16th-placed team in Ligue 2. At the moment, I think Nancy's place looks a foregone conclusion, but we've got a good chance of finishing 2nd and 3rd at the end of the season. As for Daouda Traoré, I'd say I expected better from him, his performances have been pretty average so far and I think that if he wants to play in the first team at Southampton next year, he'll have to do a lot better. One league isn't the same as another, we'd say, and the National League isn't easy. It remains to be seen whether Daouda will be playing for you next year.

Hello folks. It's a match for Valenciennes tonight as they welcome FC Versailles to the Stade du Hainaut. After two draws against Rouen and Concarneau, we want to win to continue our climb up the league table. The match kicks off as usual at 7.30pm French time and can be followed live and free of charge on the Youtube link below: Have a great day, folks! Allez VA!

You can be proud of yourselves, friends, having experienced it last year with Valenciennes, it's not easy every day, I'm sad to see that your season is complicated and I think you have to continue to support your team and not give up. Unfortunately, it's time to think about next year and wish your club a direct promotion, which is possible because you did it last year. I admire your passion for your club and I'm convinced that better days will come soon. Like you, I would also like to see SR do better for our 3 clubs and I think it's a shame that we don't always make the right choices. I think that this year the steps were too high for you but I'm not worried, you'll do much better next year my friends.

My friend, I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you how I feel about our joint owner, Sport Républic. As far as your situation is concerned, I was really happy for you last year and your promotion back to the Premier League was well deserved, even if you had a scare at the end when you went into the play-offs. It's true that this year it's very complicated for you and you should know that I'm sad about that, because you have a club with a great history. As far as our sister club Goztepe is concerned, our owner seems to be doing well, having climbed back into the Turkish D1 last year and achieved a respectable position at the top of the league for the time being. I have no doubt that they will have a rather quiet season. Finally, as far as my club, Valenciennes, is concerned, I can tell you that before the arrival of Sport Républic, things were really very complicated for us, with absentee management, a president whose management bordered on dictatorship, and we were very close to bankruptcy. It's true that SR's first year at the head of Valenciennes was very complicated and we went down to the 3rd division, but a lot of things are improving every day. I don't think that SR is as bad as that, he makes mistakes that I think are sometimes avoidable and tries to do the best he can, it's a shame because I think that with a better entourage, he could do a lot better for our 3 clubs...