Nabil Bentaleb

Defensive Midfielder - LOSC Lille
6 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

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The LOSC Lille Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Osame Sahraoui scores twice — 8.62

Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

A falling-out at LOSC Lille

Diego Rinaldi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Benjamin André 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.

Match

LOSC Lille see off OGC Nice

Three points for LOSC Lille, 2‑0 the final word against OGC Nice in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The dugout

No hiding place for Başar Önal

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Başar Önal, and the manager let it.

Squad

LOSC Lille are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Théodore Guillot has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Théodore Guillot on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Loan watch

Mohamed Bayo keeps scoring at Gaziantep

5 appearances away from home and 9 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Player ratings

Nabil Bentaleb runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The LOSC Lille Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $24.0M for Mattéo Guendouzi

LOSC Lille have gone to Fenerbahce with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Denis Zakaria

LOSC Lille asked and Monaco said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

LOSC Lille say no — this time

The offer from Nimes for Nabil Bentaleb was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Karim Benzema arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Karim Benzema has, at LOSC Lille, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Olivier Giroud wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at LOSC Lille hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Olivier Giroud signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Olivier Giroud commits to LOSC Lille for another 2 years.

Squad

Olivier Giroud 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.

Squad

A row about effort at LOSC Lille

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamin André was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Bourg-Peronnas watching Ousmane Touré

The interest is real enough to have reached print. LOSC Lille have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief