The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle
Market23 Aug 2027
Moussa Niakhaté has said yes to Sochaux
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Olympique Lyonnais have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Aarón out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Olympique Lyonnais will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Aug 2027
Mads Bidstrup 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 Olympique Lyonnais can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Mads Bidstrup: 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.” Olympique Lyonnais have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Olympique Lyonnais make their move for Iker Álvarez
$7.6M on the table at Monaco. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Florian Mekue
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Olympique Lyonnais
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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Home is on Giovanni Reyna'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; Olympique Lyonnais are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Josué Casimir runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Transfer targets Olympique Lyonnais rebuffed over Timothy Vertonghen
- Market Vincent Le Roux steps up from the Olympique Lyonnais academy
- Market Émile Garnier steps up from the Olympique Lyonnais academy