Samuel Dié

Striker - RC Lens
15 Aug 2027
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Marked for Samuel Dié

53 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces2 Aug 2027

Supporters organise against the RC Lens board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Boardroom2 Aug 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at RC Lens

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Amadou Haïdara 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 RC Lens this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Malang Sarr signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Malang Sarr and RC Lens agree another 4 years.

Squad2 Aug 2027

A late step up for Johann Lepenant

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Market2 Aug 2027

Goduine Koyalipou has his eye on Europe

It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether RC Lens can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Market2 Aug 2027

Haras El Hodoud watching Khalil Ayari

The interest is real enough to have reached print. RC Lens have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad2 Aug 2027

A step back for Louis Leroux at RC Lens

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

Samuel Dié 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

Back issues
35 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market29 Mar 2027

RC Lens turn down Atvidaberg for Samuel Dié

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match27 Mar 2027

The wait goes on for RC Lens

4 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at RC Lens

Samson Baidoo 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 dugout29 Mar 2027

Patrick Petit 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.

Match27 Mar 2027

Honours even between RC Lens and RC Strasbourg

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Pierre Duval on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Pierre Duval after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2027

RC Lens take on the side everybody is chasing

Paris Saint-Germain arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Tuomas Ollila dropped after a run of poor form

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.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

When it matters, Florian Sotoca plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief