Mathieu Le Goff

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1 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mathieu Le Goff

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The OGC Nice Post

13 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Florian Miguel: 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.” OGC Nice have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Tom Louchet

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tom Louchet will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around OGC Nice the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

The wait goes on for OGC Nice

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.

Match

The goals have deserted OGC Nice

5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at OGC Nice can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at OGC Nice

Youssouf Ndayishimiye 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.

Squad

Words at OGC Nice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Melvin Bard 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for OGC Nice against Olympique de Marseille

0‑1 to Olympique de Marseille, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

OGC Nice lose Mathieu Le Goff

44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

Isak Jansson runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The OGC Nice Post

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sofiane Diop

Successful dribbles: 51. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules De Lucca out for 62 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason OGC Nice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Tom Louchet is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at OGC Nice is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A move Dermot Mee would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Dermot Mee is living that version at OGC Nice, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Real improvement from Victor Orakpo at OGC Nice

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Victor Orakpo is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Youssouf Ndayishimiye in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at OGC Nice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at OGC Nice

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.

Match

Whatever happens, OGC Nice do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

The goals have deserted OGC Nice

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at OGC Nice can tell you which week it ends in.

In brief