9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at OGC Nice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Koffi Djidji falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A last season at home is what Mark Diemers is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
5 goals in 18 games at AS Nancy — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at OGC Nice updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Jonathan Clauss was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Nobody at OGC Nice will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The unglamorous genius of a well-written contract. Salis Abdul Samed is somebody else's player now, and $62.0K has arrived because the people who sold him thought further ahead than the transfer window.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against RC Lens? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
A brace, and Terem Moffi takes the afternoon — 8.27
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Terem Moffi provided it, and the 8.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at OGC Nice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Otis Caporusso is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
A 3‑1 win over Stade Rennais, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Moïse Bombito falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
“I watch every OGC Nice game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Stade Rennais runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Jonathan Clauss was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at OGC Nice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Youssouf Ndayishimiye is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Chances created: 4. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
Jonathan Clauss was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sofiane Diop falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Paris FC? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The offer from Stade Brestois for Salis Abdul Samed was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at OGC Nice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The interest is real enough to have reached print. OGC Nice have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The ground is getting bigger
The plans are signed off at a capacity of 34030. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
Squad7 new faces, and OGC Nice are still learning each other