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The OGC Nice Post

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Feb 2029

Moïse Bombito damages knee ligaments — 64 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 64 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market5 Feb 2029

Not going: Kevin Carlos stays at OGC Nice

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

Market5 Feb 2029

The Olympique Lyonnais deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Romano Schmid reports back to OGC Nice with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

Market5 Feb 2029

Issiaga Camara has said yes to Bourg-Peronnas

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.

Market5 Feb 2029

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.

Transfer targets5 Feb 2029

Jovany Ikanga stays at Olympique de Marseille as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. OGC Nice will try again when the window opens; Olympique de Marseille may not be selling by then.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Deadline passes with 6 signed and 11 gone

That is the business done at OGC Nice until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

Benoît Lemaire: 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.

Transfer targets5 Feb 2029

Too dear: OGC Nice walk away from Antoine Mille

$1.7M was the most the club would pay and Olympique Lyonnais 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.

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The OGC Nice Post

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Habib Diallo says OGC Nice went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market18 Sep 2028

Mahdi Camara 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.

Match16 Sep 2028

OGC Nice cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad18 Sep 2028

Words exchanged at OGC Nice

Nico Paz 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.

Match16 Sep 2028

OGC Nice find a way past Olympique Lyonnais

Olympique Lyonnais made OGC Nice work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Melvin Bard in the eights

A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Hicham Boudaoui 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.

Player ratings18 Sep 2028

Jonathan Clauss shuts the door

Defensive actions: 17, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

The dugout18 Sep 2028

Melvin Bard gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Melvin Bard is on it.

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