David Pierre

Attacking Midfielder (L) - OGC Nice U18
22 Jan 2029
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The OGC Nice Post

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Sofiane Diop runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 56. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Edson damages knee ligaments — 63 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tanguy Ndombele keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” OGC Nice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

OGC Nice cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Sofiane Diop 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.

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

OGC Nice see off FC Nantes

Three points for OGC Nice, 1‑0 the final word against FC Nantes in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Isak Jansson was the difference for OGC Nice

Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Market

OGC Nice buy the years ahead of Alexandre Barbier

He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief