The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle
Match29 Apr 2028
Olympique Lyonnais make home a hard place to visit
21 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad1 May 2028
A fracture rules Guillaume Aubry out for 67 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.
The dugout1 May 2028
Kevin Carlos: 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.
Match1 May 2028
Olympique Lyonnais are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 58 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market1 May 2028
Aarón puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Olympique Lyonnais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 May 2028
Ernest Muçi raises the bar for Olympique Lyonnais
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Olympique Lyonnais heard it as anything else.
Squad1 May 2028
Ernest Muçi 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.
Match29 Apr 2028
Whatever happens, Olympique Lyonnais do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market1 May 2028
One of our own: Rémy Royer joins the Olympique Lyonnais first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rémy Royer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Olympique Lyonnais promote Didier Robin from within
- Player ratings Álvaro Aguado was on a different afternoon to everybody else
- Squad Olympique Lyonnais lose Amine Lazrak