The OGC Nice Post
Player ratings24 Dec 2035
Arnaud Kalimuendo, 33, rolls back the years — 7.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.83 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Dec 2035
Gentian Lajqi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around OGC Nice they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match22 Dec 2035
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.
Squad24 Dec 2035
A falling-out at OGC Nice
Adam Ayari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Dec 2035
Simon Ebonog will join OGC Nice for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Simon Ebonog has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means OGC Nice have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The dugout24 Dec 2035
No hiding place for Frankarlos Benítez
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Frankarlos Benítez, and the manager let it.
Match22 Dec 2035
OGC Nice get the job done against Stade Brestois
A 1‑0 win over Stade Brestois, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market24 Dec 2035
Mirko Juárez wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Dec 2035
A row about effort at OGC Nice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sofiane Diop was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Benoît Dupuis out for 27 days
- Boardroom Wages eat 104% of everything OGC Nice earn
- The dugout Melvin Bard has become a man the manager trusts