The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle
Squad15 Sep 2031
Rémy Olivier damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Market15 Sep 2031
Only the photograph left for Nhoa Sangui
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nhoa Sangui will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Olympique Lyonnais the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings15 Sep 2031
Jean-Philippe Mateta, 34, rolls back the years — 7.93
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.93 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings15 Sep 2031
Dwight McNeil 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.
Market15 Sep 2031
Bradley M'Bondo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Olympique Lyonnais, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Words exchanged at Olympique Lyonnais
Hákon Arnar Haraldsson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom15 Sep 2031
Faris Krkalić has agreed to leave Olympique Lyonnais for nothing
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad15 Sep 2031
Andrés Mosquera Marmolejo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrés Mosquera Marmolejo has just signed for Olympique Lyonnais, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom15 Sep 2031
Yanis Monkolot will join Olympique Lyonnais for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Yanis Monkolot has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Olympique Lyonnais have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
In brief
- Match Olympique Lyonnais see off Le Havre AC
- Squad Words at Olympique Lyonnais training over how hard people work
- Market One of our own: Philippe Vidal joins the Olympique Lyonnais first team