Mathieu Gorgelin

Goalkeeper - RC Lens
31 Jan 2027
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24 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market11 Jan 2027

Terms done: Yacine Titraoui is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and AC Ajaccio waiting with a shirt. Nobody at RC Lens is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market11 Jan 2027

RC Lens say no — this time

The offer from Olympique de Marseille for Wesley Saïd 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.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Mathieu Gorgelin says RC Lens went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Lucas Hernández due for a RC Lens medical

Everything agreed with Paris Saint-Germain, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at RC Lens

Robin Risser 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Real improvement from Nidal Čelik at RC Lens

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Nidal Čelik is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market11 Jan 2027

Eyes on Ismaëlo Ganiou again

The phone has started ringing about Ismaëlo Ganiou again, and this time the name on the line is AJ Auxerre. RC Lens are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match9 Jan 2027

Duvan Torres’s goal not enough for RC Lens

Duvan Torres scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Stade Brestois, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Robin Risser

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

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The RC Lens Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match10 Oct 2026

Whatever happens, RC Lens do not lose

8 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at RC Lens

Seybou Konaté 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.

Match10 Oct 2026

Duvan Torres the difference as RC Lens beat Paris FC

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Duvan Torres. 2‑1 against Paris FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Florian Thauvin

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Wuilker Fariñez has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Abdallah Sima gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad12 Oct 2026

100 appearances for Robin Risser

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Robin Risser has had enough of the noise

The ambition story running backwards, and the one nobody tells: a footballer who wants a smaller ground, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is rarely reported as anything else.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Rémi Dufour, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief