Nidal Čelik

Central Defender - Stade Brestois
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Marked for Nidal Čelik

154 Edition

The Stade Brestois Sentinel

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market9 Jul 2029

Tommaso Pobega agrees terms with SM Caen

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Stade Brestois people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Telli Siwe breaks a bone — 39 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 39 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market9 Jul 2029

Michele Collocolo asks to leave Stade Brestois

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market9 Jul 2029

Rudy Matondo is a Stade Brestois player

The fee is $3.2M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Paris FC drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market9 Jul 2029

Stade Brestois say no — this time

The offer from Amiens SC for Issiaga Soumah 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.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Home is on Mohamed Abdelmonem's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Stade Brestois are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Stade Brestois

Tommaso Pobega and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad9 Jul 2029

A row about effort at Stade Brestois

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

Transfer targets9 Jul 2029

Olympique Lyonnais tell Stade Brestois: Danilo is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief

Back issues
135 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Feb 2029

The knee: Goduine Koyalipou out for 106 days

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

Market26 Feb 2029

Odsonne Édouard hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what RC Lens can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

Ulisses Garcia: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” RC Lens have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market26 Feb 2029

RC Lens may not be able to give Anthony Rouault what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Anthony Rouault wants continental football; whether RC Lens can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Saud Abdulhamid 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.

Loan watch26 Feb 2029

14 clean sheets on loan for Paul Bernardoni

22 appearances at Sint-Truiden and the goals have stopped going in. RC Lens lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

Match24 Feb 2029

RC Lens see off Paris FC

Three points for RC Lens, 1‑0 the final word against Paris FC in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Words at RC Lens training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Ebonog 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.

Player ratings26 Feb 2029

Amadou Haïdara was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

129 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market15 Jan 2029

Terms done: Kevin Carlos is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and SM Caen waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Olympique Lyonnais is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market15 Jan 2029

Olympique Lyonnais sell Danilo for $21.1M

Danilo has left for Paris Saint-Germain in a $21.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Boardroom15 Jan 2029

Olympique Lyonnais write off $3.4M on Danilo

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $3.4M of what Olympique Lyonnais paid for Danilo is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

Market15 Jan 2029

Mathis Iwosso turns FC Versailles down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad15 Jan 2029

Alejandro Pozo arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Alejandro Pozo has, at Olympique Lyonnais, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market15 Jan 2029

Olympique Lyonnais get their man

The chase for Joan Tincres ended with $2.7M changing hands and AS Saint-Etienne out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2029

No thanks: Nidal Čelik rejects the move

Olympique Lyonnais had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at RC Lens, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2029

Olympique Lyonnais baulk at the price for Wesley Saïd

OGC Nice wanted more than $940.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad15 Jan 2029

Corentin Tolisso 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.

In brief

129 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets15 Jan 2029

Too dear: RC Lens walk away from Lamine Camara

$56.4M was the most the club would pay and Monaco were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market15 Jan 2029

Not going: Simon Ebonog stays at RC Lens

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Quevilly-Rouen had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

The terraces15 Jan 2029

The mood at RC Lens has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Market15 Jan 2029

Terms done: Jhoanner Chávez is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and FC Villefranche waiting with a shirt. Nobody at RC Lens is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets15 Jan 2029

An offer of $13.3M for Johann Lepenant

RC Lens have gone to USL Dunkerque with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Match13 Jan 2029

No end in sight to RC Lens's wait for a win

6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at RC Lens has to find a result from somewhere.

Market15 Jan 2029

Jonathan Gradit hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what RC Lens can pretend not to have heard.

Market15 Jan 2029

RC Lens turn down Pau FC for Andrija Bulatović

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

Boardroom15 Jan 2029

Nidal Čelik has agreed to leave RC Lens for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

In brief