The OGC Nice Post
Match21 Aug 2027
OGC Nice run riot against Red Star
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Yoann Court out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason OGC Nice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match21 Aug 2027
OGC Nice make home a hard place to visit
13 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Yoann Court 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 The request is on a desk at OGC Nice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Morgan Sanson, 33, rolls back the years — 8.03
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.03 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Up for the corner, and Youssouf Ndayishimiye delivers — 6.49
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Youssouf Ndayishimiye scored, was marked 6.49, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Melvin Bard stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Melvin Bard and OGC Nice agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Sofiane Diop 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 OGC Nice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Andria Svanidze at OGC Nice
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andria Svanidze is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
- Boardroom Graduation day at OGC Nice
- Market Thomas Petit steps up from the OGC Nice academy
- Market OGC Nice promote Jacques David from within