Dante

Central Defender - Retired
11 Dec 2026
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Marked for Dante

11 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Mohamed Abdelmonem out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason OGC Nice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at OGC Nice

Mohamed Amoura 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 Oct 2026

Zoumana Diallo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Home is on Mohamed Abdelmonem's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; OGC Nice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

When it matters, Sofiane Diop plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Yehvann Diouf question follows OGC Nice around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Yehvann Diouf’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Dante goes back to face LOSC Lille

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dante’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and OGC Nice needing him to play as if none of it matters.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The manager makes Isak Jansson a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at OGC Nice. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Loan watch12 Oct 2026

Nobody is scoring past Teddy Boulhendi at Bourg-Peronnas

4 shut-outs in 8 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Teddy Boulhendi has been having a lot of them.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Newcastle United tell OGC Nice: Yoane Wissa is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mohamed Abdelmonem 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 OGC Nice can pretend not to have heard.

Market3 Aug 2026

Yehvann Diouf attracts admirers

The name of Yehvann Diouf has come up in conversations OGC Nice were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad3 Aug 2026

10 seasons of Dante

595 appearances across 10 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and OGC Nice know what they have.

Market3 Aug 2026

Sofiane Diop wants more than OGC Nice are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sofiane Diop signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sofiane Diop commits to OGC Nice for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at OGC Nice

Sofiane Diop 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Axel Witsel retires from international football

“140 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 37 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at OGC Nice.

Market3 Aug 2026

Talks stall between OGC Nice and Axel Witsel

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

  • The dugout Jonathan Clauss asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Dante