Axel Witsel

Central Defender - OGC Nice
19 Sep 2026
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Marked for Axel Witsel

7 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Sofiane Diop asks to leave OGC Nice

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad14 Sep 2026

8 saves: Yehvann Diouf was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at OGC Nice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Amoura is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Mohamed Amoura runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Axel Witsel

“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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

OGC Nice are still strangers to each other

7 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Mohamed Amoura rescues a point for OGC Nice

It needed Mohamed Amoura to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Olympique Lyonnais, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

Jean-Luc Lemoine: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Market14 Sep 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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

OGC Nice rebuffed over Yannick Januzaj

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KV Oostende have kept their man, and OGC Nice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Too dear: OGC Nice walk away from Kingsley Coman

$15.2M was the most the club would pay and Al-Nassr were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Not going: Vincent Gonzalez stays at OGC Nice

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” AVS had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Market10 Aug 2026

Jonathan Clauss 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Yehvann Diouf signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yehvann Diouf and OGC Nice agree another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at OGC Nice

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Mohamed Abdelmonem attracts admirers

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mohamed Abdelmonem wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and OGC Nice know it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No place for Léo Bonatini in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation OGC Nice are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

1 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Yves Bissouma

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

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

OGC Nice make their move for Kingsley Coman

$11.2M on the table at Al-Nassr. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

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

OGC Nice turn down Palermo for Morgan Sanson

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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.

In brief