Simon Didier

Striker - OGC Nice U20
1 Jul 2028
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60 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout20 Sep 2027

Ludovic Ajorque: 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.” OGC Nice have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market20 Sep 2027

Salis Abdul Samed has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around OGC Nice they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets20 Sep 2027

The window shuts on the Jota deal

OGC Nice ran out of time with Grenoble Foot 38. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

The dugout20 Sep 2027

Gauthier Hein 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.

Market20 Sep 2027

Kevin Carlos told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kevin Carlos has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at OGC Nice.

Player ratings20 Sep 2027

Melvin Bard takes the honours

Marked 7.40 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, OGC Nice had the best player on the pitch.

Squad20 Sep 2027

A falling-out at OGC Nice

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

The dugout20 Sep 2027

When it matters, Jonathan Clauss 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.

The dugout20 Sep 2027

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” David Lacroix was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the OGC Nice dressing room was either.

In brief

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The OGC Nice Post

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market2 Aug 2027

Salis Abdul Samed agrees terms with US Orleans

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

Market2 Aug 2027

OGC Nice turn down SC Paderborn for Rémy Descamps

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

Squad2 Aug 2027

Axel Witsel slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Axel Witsel is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

The dugout2 Aug 2027

The manager makes an example of Morgan Sanson

“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.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Home is on Greg Ranjitsingh'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; OGC Nice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Simon Didier 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 OGC Nice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

48 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Jun 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mattéo Bancillon

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

Market28 Jun 2027

Salis Abdul Samed has said yes to US Orleans

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. OGC Nice have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

An offer of $9.5M for Wesley Saïd

OGC Nice have gone to RC Lens 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.

Market28 Jun 2027

Ali Abdi asks to leave OGC Nice

“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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Words at OGC Nice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Amoura 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.

Transfer targets28 Jun 2027

Door shut on Joan Tincres

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

The dugout28 Jun 2027

Isak Jansson 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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Simon Didier signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Simon Didier commits to OGC Nice for another 3 years.

Squad28 Jun 2027

No place for Ludovic Ajorque in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation OGC Nice are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief