Articles tagged with "monaco-team-news"
The turning point?
By Richard | March 2nd, 2009AS Monaco 2 (Nimani 20, Mollo 90) St. Etienne 2 (Payet 26, Matsui 61) This may well be the match that saves Monaco and condemns les Verts ...
de Bontin resigns
By Richard | February 28th, 2009The club's president, Jerome de Bontin, has unexpectedly quit his post citing 'family reasons'. He was only at the club for less than a year. What will ...
The R word
By Richard | February 24th, 2009Another match, another demoralizing defeat. At the beginning of the month, coach Ricardo called for seven points out of a three match stretch with Grenoble, ...
ASM report: Two-sday numerology edition
By Richard | January 20th, 2009The photos above represent Monaco's current home and away form, respectively. Can you spot the difference? Caen 2 (Savidan 73, Nivet 90) AS Monaco 2 (Pino ...
Ricardo dehors!
By Richard | January 11th, 2009AS Monaco 1 (Licata 86) Nantes 2 (Bagayoko 5, Capoue 41) After finishing the first half of the season on such a dreadful note (see my previous ...
ASM 3-4 Bordeaux: Jekyll and Hyde football
By Richard | December 21st, 2008AS Monaco 3 (Pino 14, Licata 44, 50) Bordeaux 4 (Chamakh 52, 88, Diarra 67, Cavenaghi 89) Study the chronology of that scoreline. If you read nothing ...
Bravo Hrvatska! (Auxerre 0-1 ASM)
By Richard | November 30th, 2008Auxerre 0 AS Monaco 1 (Pokrivac 24) Wow. The ASM forums were pretty convinced that we had an easy opponent this week, but I was pretty nervous ...
We became Brazil for 5 minutes
By Richard | November 26th, 2008AS Monaco 3 (Alonso 49, Paulo Andre 50og, Licata 53) Le Mans 0 A month's worth of goals in 5 minutes, and a missed penalty to boot! ...
Rennes 2-ASM 1 and other assorted bad news
By Richard | November 18th, 2008Rennes 2 (Sow 43, Briand 53) AS Monaco 1 (Cufre 72 pen) Many of the fans are saying that Monaco's recent purple patch was just an aberration ...
13th place: Is Monaco crawling out if its grave?
By Richard | October 31st, 2008Ok, that might be a bit morbid, but it's October 31 and I'm just trying to be topical. (BTW sorry for the blog neglect--busy social ...
St. Etienne 2-0 Monaco: Can this team get a bailout?
By Richard | October 6th, 2008St. Etienne 2 (Gomis 11, Dernis 83) AS Monaco 0 Yes, bailout jokes are lame and unimaginitive, but uninspired play deserves uninspired jokes. But seriously, why not ...
Monaco 0-2 Lille: It's glass half-empty time
By Richard | September 30th, 2008AS Monaco 0 Lille 2 (Cabaye 69, Obraniak 87) Monaco cannot score goals. That's 3 matches in a row now with no goals, if you count the midweek ...
Marseille 0-0 AS Monaco: well, there's a 3rd kit you can look at!
By Richard | September 22nd, 2008No doubt inspired by this week's CL results, Monaco decided to wear their Liverpool-esque all-red 3rd kit for the big away match at the Stade ...
ASM 2-0 Lorient: Korean Idol
By Richard | September 14th, 2008AS Monaco 2 (Park 25, Nimani 71) Lorient 0 That'll teach me to doubt the scouting department at Monaco. Let's be tactful and say that selling and ...
Grenoble 1-0 ASM: chemistry? who needs chemistry?
By Richard | September 1st, 2008Grenoble 1 (Moreira 19) AS Monaco 0 A team struggling for goals sells Menez to Roma and loans Nene to Espanyol. What could go wrong? Monaco sank ...
Congratulations giallorossi!
By Richard | August 28th, 2008It seems my superstitions were well-founded. According to the club's official website, Jérémy Ménez is off to AS Roma for around 14 million euros. As ...
ASM 1-1 Caen plus mercato-mania
By Richard | August 26th, 2008AS Monaco 1 (Nimani 52) Caen 1 (Leko 74og) Sorry about the late report....anyway, this match was very similar to last week's match with Nantes in that ...
The man, the myth, the Ménez
By Richard | August 23rd, 2008Well, I had been holding off writing about our biggest star because I thought he might leave and I had the superstitious fear that me ...
Hurry! Read this while we're still in 1st place!
By Richard | August 17th, 2008Nantes 1 (Keseru 66) AS Monaco 1 (Meriem 4) Two points thrown down the drain. Yes, this is the sort of match Monaco frequently lost last year, ...
Ask, and ye shall receive
By Richard | August 12th, 2008Bravo to the board at ASM, who wasted little time in responding to the desperate need for help in defense by signing Dario Simic from ...
A costly victory?
By Richard | August 10th, 2008AS Monaco 1 (Nimani 78) Paris St. Germain 0 Much to the chagrin of the French media, PSG could not manage a single point at the Stade ...
AS Monaco 0-0 AS Roma
By Richard | August 3rd, 2008Monaco concluded their pre-season program with a 0-0 draw against Roma at the Stade Louis II. Despite the lack of goals, there was plenty for ...
Please Lord, not Baros!
By Richard | July 29th, 2008It seems increasingly likely that Piquionne will be joining OL, and instead of getting Kongo Kim in return, we will secure the services of one ...
Doom and gloom
By Richard | July 28th, 2008Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I got extremely frustrated after the 3-1 loss to OM and I thought I would wait awhile to ...
Another new player, etc.
By Richard | July 23rd, 2008Well, a new-ish player, anyway. 25 year-old Ivorian defensive midfielder Jean-Jacques Gosso impressed Ricardo and the ASM board during his trial to earn a 3-year ...
Are you ready for Freddy?
By Richard | July 21st, 2008Freddy Adu has joined AS Monaco on a one-year loan!!!! As an American, your humble Monaco blogger is quite proud and excited by this development ...
Reyes and Maniche?
By Richard | July 21st, 2008The rumors are heating up that Atletico journeymen Maniche and Jose Antonio Reyes could be coming to Monaco. I heard about these and dismissed them ...
Our away kits: you like? (plus more bios)
By Richard | July 19th, 2008Here are some action shots of our away kits for this season in the recent friendly against NK Zagreb. The shade of the shirts and ...
Meet your future players! (part 1)
By Richard | July 19th, 2008I was amused to hear that everyone's favorite Cockney wideboy gaffer Harry Redknapp took a swipe at Monaco after rejecting the club's 12 million pound ...
Draw with NK Zagreb
By Richard | July 16th, 2008Monaco continued its preseason program today with a friendly against NK Zagreb of Croatia: AS Monaco 2 (Nene 56pen, Bakar 68) NK Zagreb 2 (Mujdza 11, Parlov ...
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