Bruno Nicolas

Striker - Olympique de Marseille
3 Sep 2028
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109 Edition

The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match26 Aug 2028

13 unbeaten for Olympique de Marseille

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Olympique de Marseille did not have in the autumn.

Market28 Aug 2028

Olympique de Marseille sign Lorenzo Palmisani with one eye on the future

Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Lorenzo Palmisani has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.

Match26 Aug 2028

The wait goes on for Olympique de Marseille

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market28 Aug 2028

Amine Harit has one foot out of the door

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

Squad28 Aug 2028

Lorenzo Palmisani gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lorenzo Palmisani has just signed for Olympique de Marseille, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

The manager makes an example of Wilson Isidor

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout28 Aug 2028

Bradley Barcola gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bradley Barcola is on it.

Squad28 Aug 2028

Bruno Nicolas stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Nicolas and Olympique de Marseille agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match26 Aug 2028

Olympique de Marseille share the spoils with Olympique Lyonnais

A 1‑1 draw with Olympique Lyonnais leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

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108 Edition

The Olympique de Marseille Sentinel

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match19 Aug 2028

12 unbeaten for Olympique de Marseille

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Olympique de Marseille did not have in the autumn.

Transfer targets21 Aug 2028

Olympique de Marseille bid $6.5M for Lorenzo Palmisani

The offer went to Stade Rennais this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Age has not caught Pierre-Emile Højbjerg yet — 8.14

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The dugout21 Aug 2028

Angel Gomes says Olympique de Marseille went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings21 Aug 2028

Bradley Barcola was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match19 Aug 2028

4 matches without a win for Olympique de Marseille

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Olympique de Marseille are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom21 Aug 2028

5 academy graduates step up at Olympique de Marseille

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: Hervé Carpentier joins the Olympique de Marseille first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Hervé Carpentier is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market21 Aug 2028

One of our own: François Muller joins the Olympique de Marseille first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. François Muller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief