The RC Lens Herald
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Wesley Saïd says RC Lens 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Florian Sotoca asks to leave RC Lens
“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.
Match21 Aug 2027
The wait goes on for RC Lens
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at RC Lens
Abdallah Sima 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted RC Lens
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at RC Lens can tell you which week it ends in.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
RC Lens rebuffed over Bryan Okoh
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AJ Auxerre have kept their man, and RC Lens go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Abdallah Sima
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match21 Aug 2027
RC Lens come up short against Olympique de Marseille
Olympique de Marseille left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Market Mathieu Da Silva steps up from the RC Lens academy
- Market One of our own: Jacques Collet joins the RC Lens first team
- Market Joseph Richard steps up from the RC Lens academy