The OGC Nice Post
Squad10 Jul 2028
A winner's medal for Melvin Bard
The club had no hand in it and the town will claim it anyway, which is exactly as it should be. 1 caps now, a summer that will define how his name is said for the rest of his career, and a manager quietly wondering what it does to a man's appetite for a wet Tuesday.
Market10 Jul 2028
Not going: Youssouf Ndayishimiye stays at OGC Nice
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Amiens SC had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market10 Jul 2028
Han-Noah Massengo asks to leave OGC Nice
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market10 Jul 2028
Leo Román’s move to Stade de Reims falls through
The deal that would have taken Leo Román to Stade de Reims has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to OGC Nice with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Transfer targets10 Jul 2028
Door shut on Ignatius Ganago
OGC Nice asked and FC Nantes said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Jul 2028
Gautier Ott 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.
Squad10 Jul 2028
Mahdi Camara falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad10 Jul 2028
OGC Nice lose Patrick Berger
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout10 Jul 2028
Han-Noah Massengo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Squad A falling-out at OGC Nice
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Leo Román's mistake
- The dugout Melvin Bard has become a man the manager trusts