The OGC Nice Post
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
- Looking ahead A reunion for Dante
- The dugout Axel Witsel left out for tactical reasons at OGC Nice
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Vincent Gonzalez