The RC Lens Herald
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to RC Lens's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at RC Lens has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Andrija Bulatović at RC Lens
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andrija Bulatović is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at RC Lens
Allan Saint-Maximin 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
The run at home goes on for RC Lens
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match21 Aug 2027
3 matches without a goal for RC Lens
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad23 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Samson Baidoo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samson Baidoo, and the manager let it.
Market23 Aug 2027
Rémy Labeau Lascary attracts admirers
The name of Rémy Labeau Lascary has come up in conversations RC Lens were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Robin Risser
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Marcel Pierre joins the RC Lens first team
- Market Philippe Garnier steps up from the RC Lens academy
- Market RC Lens promote Émile Noël from within