The LOSC Lille Herald
Squad17 Aug 2026
Zakaria Ait Ali damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $17.5M for Jordan Teze
LOSC Lille have gone to Monaco with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$3.5M settles it between the clubs for Hamidou Makalou
Stade Brestois have accepted the money. What LOSC Lille 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
No deal for Marvin Schwäbe at that price
LOSC Lille offered $10.4M; Köln said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
LOSC Lille rebuffed over Yassin Belkhdim
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Angers SCO have kept their man, and LOSC Lille go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Soriba Diaoune says no to Olympique Akbou
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Soriba Diaoune had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market17 Aug 2026
LOSC Lille turn down Paris Saint-Germain for Alexsandro Ribeiro
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Benjamin André 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 LOSC Lille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at LOSC Lille
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Market Maxima Goffi moves on
- The dugout No hiding place for Osame Sahraoui
- Market Benoît Maillard steps up from the LOSC Lille academy