Stéphane Pons

Attacking Midfielder (L) - RC Lens U18
24 Apr 2029
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Marked for Stéphane Pons

106 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces7 Aug 2028

Anger at RC Lens spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market7 Aug 2028

Ignatius Ganago is a RC Lens player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market7 Aug 2028

Jhoanner Chávez turns Le Mans FC down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

The silence upstairs is getting loud at RC Lens

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2028

RC Lens make their move for Khalis Merah

$3.4M on the table at FC Lorient. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market7 Aug 2028

Eyes on Malang Sarr again

The phone has started ringing about Malang Sarr again, and this time the name on the line is Union SG. RC Lens are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at RC Lens

Jeremy Agbonifo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market7 Aug 2028

Musa Al-Tamari wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at RC Lens hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad7 Aug 2028

RC Lens count the cost of losing Stéphane Pons

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

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102 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Jul 2028

Robin Risser wins it with his country

A RC Lens player is an international champion, and the town will claim a share of a summer it had nothing to do with. 0 caps now, and a name that will be said differently for the rest of his career.

Market10 Jul 2028

Young Boys come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and RC Lens did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market10 Jul 2028

Ismaëlo Ganiou 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.

Market10 Jul 2028

Jhoanner Chávez says no to FC Annecy

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Jhoanner Chávez had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Boardroom10 Jul 2028

RC Lens write off $1.4M on Amine Hemia

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $1.4M of what RC Lens paid for Amine Hemia is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

Transfer targets10 Jul 2028

RC Lens bid $3.0M for Ryan Rodin

The offer went to RC Strasbourg this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market10 Jul 2028

Business is business: Amine Hemia goes

Grenoble Foot 38 paid $2.9M and RC Lens took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Boardroom10 Jul 2028

Still no name above the door at RC Lens

Day 39 of the vacancy. Candidates have been priced, sounded out and quietly ruled out — and the caretaker’s win ratio is becoming an argument all by itself.

Squad10 Jul 2028

Tempers go at RC Lens

Robin Risser was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief