Olly Whitby

Defensive Midfielder - Toulouse FC
11 Nov 2032
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The Toulouse FC Courier

18 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market18 Aug 2031

Olympique Lyonnais come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Toulouse FC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings18 Aug 2031

Frank Magri runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad18 Aug 2031

Tempers go at Toulouse FC

Andrija Živković 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.

Boardroom18 Aug 2031

Toulouse FC tie Alexandre Royer down

A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.

Squad18 Aug 2031

Olly Whitby is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market18 Aug 2031

Olympique Lyonnais watching Julián Vignolo

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

Squad18 Aug 2031

Cristian Cásseres 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.

Boardroom18 Aug 2031

17 academy players handed senior numbers at Toulouse FC

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad18 Aug 2031

A late step up for Hugo Kissanga

At 25 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.

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The Toulouse FC Courier

21 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market21 Jul 2031

Toulouse FC turn down Olympique Lyonnais for Aron Dønnum

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

Squad21 Jul 2031

Tempers go at Toulouse FC

Andrija Živković 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.

Squad21 Jul 2031

Real improvement from Olly Whitby at Toulouse FC

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Olly Whitby is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad21 Jul 2031

Cristian Cásseres 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.

Market21 Jul 2031

Olympique Lyonnais are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Toulouse FC will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad21 Jul 2031

Aron Dønnum has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Toulouse FC 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.

In brief