The RC Lens Herald
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Simon Ebonog
RC Lens and Le Havre AC have settled on $7.7M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: RC Lens walk away from Warren Zaïre-Emery
$22.8M was the most the club would pay and Paris Saint-Germain were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
LOSC Lille tell RC Lens: Hákon Arnar Haraldsson is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market17 Aug 2026
RC Lens say no — this time
The offer from Olympique de Marseille for Odsonne Édouard was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
RC Lens go back to the board over Simon Ebonog
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $8.3M — a club that wants Simon Ebonog enough to be asked twice.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Robin Risser 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 RC Lens this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at RC Lens
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
RC Lens promote Jacques Fleury from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jacques Fleury has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market17 Aug 2026
RC Lens promote Olivier Schmitt from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Olivier Schmitt has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Looking ahead Jean-Clair Todibo faces his old club
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to OGC Nice
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ruben Aguilar