The RC Lens Herald
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$7.3M settles it between the clubs for Ethan Mbappé
LOSC Lille have accepted the money. What RC Lens do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
LOSC Lille tell RC Lens: Hákon Arnar Haraldsson is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
RC Lens sell Andrija Bulatović for $6.3M
Andrija Bulatović has left for Toulouse FC in a $6.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
RC Lens go back to the board over Marius Courcoul
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.9M — a club that wants Marius Courcoul enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Robin Risser 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 RC Lens this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at RC Lens
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Théodore Nicolas joins the RC Lens first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Théodore Nicolas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Louis Nguyen joins the RC Lens first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Louis Nguyen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Patrick David joins the RC Lens first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick David is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- The dugout Samson Baidoo asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Jean-Clair Todibo faces his old club
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to OGC Nice