The LOSC Lille Herald
Squad23 Aug 2027
Osame Sahraoui breaks a bone — 69 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 69 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Olympique de Marseille tell LOSC Lille: Igor Paixão 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Hákon Arnar Haraldsson
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market23 Aug 2027
Lilian Baret 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 The request is on a desk at LOSC Lille, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Mouad Gounfissi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Alexsandro Ribeiro has improved at 28, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at LOSC Lille training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismaël Bennacer is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at LOSC Lille
5 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
The run at home goes on for LOSC Lille
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
In brief
- Market LOSC Lille promote Marcel Renard from within
- Market One of our own: Didier Bertrand joins the LOSC Lille first team
- Market LOSC Lille promote David Guyot from within