The LOSC Lille Herald
Market21 Feb 2028
Alexsandro Ribeiro 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 LOSC Lille can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Jérôme Barbier, 21, steals the show — 7.66
Marked 7.66 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market21 Feb 2028
Hákon Arnar Haraldsson wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Match19 Feb 2028
No end in sight to LOSC Lille's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at LOSC Lille has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Feb 2028
At 21, Jérôme Barbier is already the best thing here
An average of 7.04 in a first team he is several years too young for. LOSC Lille have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Match19 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for LOSC Lille against Monaco
2‑3 to Monaco, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market21 Feb 2028
One of our own: Édouard André joins the LOSC Lille first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Édouard André is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Feb 2028
Mathieu Aubert steps up from the LOSC Lille academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mathieu Aubert has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at LOSC Lille training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathan Ngoy 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Arnaud Kalimuendo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Osame Sahraoui
- The dugout No hiding place for Benjamin André