The RC Lens Herald
Match19 Aug 2028
11 matches without a win for RC Lens
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around RC Lens are no longer polite ones.
Market21 Aug 2028
Thierno Barry 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 The request is on a desk at RC Lens, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Jacques Girard minds the shop at RC Lens
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Jacques Girard recited it perfectly.
Transfer targets21 Aug 2028
Stade Rennais tell RC Lens: Lorenzo Palmisani 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.
The dugout21 Aug 2028
Goduine Koyalipou: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” RC Lens have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at RC Lens
Matthieu Udol 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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Saud Abdulhamid 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at RC Lens
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Thomas Rodriguez joins the RC Lens first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Rodriguez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Nicolas Robert steps up from the RC Lens academy
- Market Robert Paul steps up from the RC Lens academy
- Match A bad afternoon for RC Lens against OGC Nice