Benoît Ménard

Left Forward - Free Agent
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578 Edition

The LOSC Lille Herald

24 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad24 Aug 2037

Dominik Oroz damages knee ligaments — 147 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 147 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.

Match22 Aug 2037

LOSC Lille tear Red Star apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Red Star, and it could have been more.

Player ratings24 Aug 2037

Tylel Tati shuts the door

Defensive actions: 32, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Player ratings24 Aug 2037

Santiago Castro scores twice — 8.71

Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings24 Aug 2037

Age has not caught Osame Sahraoui yet — 9.53

At 36 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.53 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match22 Aug 2037

Whatever happens, LOSC Lille do not lose

9 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.

Market24 Aug 2037

Benoît Ménard 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 The request is on a desk at LOSC Lille, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2037

Hákon Arnar Haraldsson 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 LOSC Lille this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Aug 2037

Alexsandro Ribeiro 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.

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The LOSC Lille Herald

12 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Match10 Jan 2037

LOSC Lille throw away a 2-goal lead

2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Le Havre AC the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that LOSC Lille will enjoy reviewing.

Market12 Jan 2037

Tours come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and LOSC Lille did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad12 Jan 2037

Hákon Arnar Haraldsson is carrying LOSC Lille

11 goals and a season average of 7.91. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings12 Jan 2037

Hákon Arnar Haraldsson, 33, rolls back the years — 9.49

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.49 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market12 Jan 2037

Benoît Ménard hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what LOSC Lille can pretend not to have heard.

Squad12 Jan 2037

Tempers go at LOSC Lille

Hákon Arnar Haraldsson 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.

Squad12 Jan 2037

Santiago Castro 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.

Squad12 Jan 2037

The manager makes an example of Alexsandro Ribeiro

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings12 Jan 2037

One of those days for Ruben Lomet

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief