David Meyer

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139 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Mar 2029

The knee: David Meyer out for 17 days

17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Olympique Lyonnais lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match24 Mar 2029

Olympique Lyonnais tear FC Lorient apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against FC Lorient, and it could have been more.

Market26 Mar 2029

Mattéo Guendouzi 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 The request is on a desk at Olympique Lyonnais, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad26 Mar 2029

3 goals for Pavel Šulc

The match ball belongs to Pavel Šulc, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Mattéo Guendouzi goes up and wins it — 7.91

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.91 for the rest of it.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Pavel Šulc is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.31 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Ismaël Bennacer wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Olympique Lyonnais can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Ninety minutes of Pavel Šulc at his very best

Marked 9.80. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Olympique Lyonnais.

Match24 Mar 2029

Whatever happens, Olympique Lyonnais do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

In brief

Back issues
138 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Mar 2029

David Meyer damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.

Player ratings19 Mar 2029

Both of them Pavel Šulc's — 9.10

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.10, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings19 Mar 2029

No sign of nerves from Rémi Himbert at 21 — 7.94

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Rémi Himbert did not need any: 7.94, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings19 Mar 2029

Age has not caught Hakim Ziyech yet — 8.20

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.20 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Mattéo Guendouzi 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 Olympique Lyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Pavel Šulc is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Rémi Himbert is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.03 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Olympique Lyonnais know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Matt Turner gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match17 Mar 2029

Late, late show earns Olympique Lyonnais a point

Minute 96, against Monaco, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

In brief

137 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Mar 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Meyer

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Olympique Lyonnais lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market12 Mar 2029

Only the photograph left for Kaïl Boudache

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kaïl Boudache will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Olympique Lyonnais the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Tempers go at Olympique Lyonnais

Mattéo Guendouzi 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.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Matt Turner falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

Ninety minutes of Mattéo Guendouzi at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Olympique Lyonnais.

Match10 Mar 2029

Late, late show earns Olympique Lyonnais a point

Minute 91, against FC Nantes, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Olympique Lyonnais are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

No hiding place for Matevž Dajčar

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matevž Dajčar, and the manager let it.

Match10 Mar 2029

Olympique Lyonnais share the spoils with FC Nantes

A 1‑1 draw with FC Nantes leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

136 Edition

The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

5 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Mar 2029

The knee: David Meyer out for 44 days

44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Olympique Lyonnais lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Player ratings5 Mar 2029

Both of them Mattéo Guendouzi's — 8.32

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market5 Mar 2029

Matevž Dajčar asks to leave Olympique Lyonnais

“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.

The dugout5 Mar 2029

Omar Correia keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Olympique Lyonnais may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market5 Mar 2029

Ruben Kluivert has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Olympique Lyonnais they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad5 Mar 2029

Pavel Šulc stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Pavel Šulc and Olympique Lyonnais agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market5 Mar 2029

Matt Turner raises the bar for Olympique Lyonnais

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Olympique Lyonnais heard it as anything else.

Match3 Mar 2029

Nobody wants to play Olympique Lyonnais right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad5 Mar 2029

Words exchanged at Olympique Lyonnais

Tyler Morton and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief