The FC Lorient Herald
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at FC Lorient
Montassar Talbi 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at FC Lorient
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
FC Lorient promote Yann Lopez from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Yann Lopez 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
FC Lorient promote Philippe Da Silva from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Philippe Da Silva 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
FC Lorient promote Christophe Durand from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christophe Durand 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
Benoît Charles steps up from the FC Lorient academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Benoît Charles has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Oussama Lyakoubi 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The spotlight tightens on Ibrahim Cissé
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at FC Lorient
Jean-Victor Makengo has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
- Squad Somebody is after Darlin Yongwa’s shirt
- Boardroom FC Lorient spend it where nobody looks