Haktan Şener

Defensive Midfielder - Olympique Lyonnais U20
10 Jan 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Haktan Şener

19 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Haktan Şener out for 19 days

19 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Olympique Lyonnais lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Olympique Lyonnais count the cost of losing Moussa Niakhaté

41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Match

4 matches without a win for Olympique Lyonnais

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Olympique Lyonnais are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Nicolás Tagliafico in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympique Lyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Dominik Greif 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.

Match

FC Nantes take the points off Olympique Lyonnais

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Tanner Tessmann 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Álvaro Aguado

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Émile Gérard: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Haktan Şener

27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Olympique Lyonnais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Olympique Lyonnais

0‑4 against LOSC Lille, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Player ratings

Loïs Openda was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Tempers go at Olympique Lyonnais

Moussa Niakhaté 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

Abner Vinicius 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 Olympique Lyonnais know it.

Match

Olympique Lyonnais cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

The dugout

Loïs Openda 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Olympique Lyonnais

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑4 defeat, delivered by Émile Gérard to a room that had heard them before.

In brief