Moïse Bombito

Central Defender - OGC Nice
18 Dec 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Moïse Bombito

18 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

OGC Nice are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

The dugout

Moïse Bombito keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” OGC Nice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for OGC Nice — 7.79

1 for Tanguy Ndombele, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

A row about effort at OGC Nice

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohamed Amoura was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Hicham Boudaoui sends OGC Nice past AJ Auxerre

It finished 2‑0, and it was Hicham Boudaoui’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to OGC Nice.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Hicham Boudaoui

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Mohamed Abdelmonem wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at OGC Nice can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

Tempers go at OGC Nice

Côme Fromager 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Laurent Abergel

“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.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at OGC Nice

Mohamed Amoura 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.

Squad

The step up is real for Enguerrand Bouard

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

A smaller club would suit Yehvann Diouf now

He has had enough of the noise. Whether OGC Nice can be a quieter place for him, or whether the only cure is a move somewhere the phone-ins are gentler, is a question for the next few months.

Squad

5 new faces, and OGC Nice are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Hicham Boudaoui gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Hicham Boudaoui is on it.

The dugout

Salis Abdul Samed gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

2 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

OGC Nice bid $45.9M for Mateo Retegui

The offer went to Al-Qadisiyah this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

OGC Nice bid $13.7M for Ilan Kebbal

The offer went to Paris FC this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

OGC Nice asked and Olympique de Marseille said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Jonathan Clauss wants more than OGC Nice are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad

Jonathan Clauss signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Clauss and OGC Nice agree another 3 years.

Squad

A falling-out at OGC Nice

Mohamed Amoura and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Mohamed Abdelmonem wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and OGC Nice know it.

The dugout

Jonathan Clauss asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

No hiding place for Moïse Bombito

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Moïse Bombito, and the manager let it.

In brief