The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle
Squad27 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Olympique Lyonnais
Corentin Tolisso 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
Joss Marques da Silva is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Olympique Lyonnais is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Olympique Lyonnais
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Willian Pacho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market27 Mar 2028
David Robin steps up from the Olympique Lyonnais academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Robin 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
Olympique Lyonnais promote Daniel Dumont from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Dumont 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.
Market27 Mar 2028
One of our own: Jean-Luc Moulin joins the Olympique Lyonnais first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jean-Luc Moulin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Emeric Etondé out for 41 days
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Emeric Etondé, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad27 Mar 2028
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 dugout27 Mar 2028
Pavel Šulc 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 Pavel Šulc is on it.
In brief
- The dugout Folarin Balogun knocks on the manager’s door
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Khalis Merah’s exile
- The dugout A promise honoured at Olympique Lyonnais