The RC Lens Herald
Match29 Aug 2026
No mercy from RC Lens
Le Havre AC will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. RC Lens were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Mateo Retegui scores twice — 8.86
Two goals and a mark of 8.86 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
Paris Saint-Germain come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and RC Lens did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
RC Lens get their man
The chase for Daouda Guindo ended with $5.1M changing hands and Stade Brestois out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market31 Aug 2026
Samuel Dié 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 RC Lens can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at RC Lens
Mateo Retegui 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Bahmed Deuff attracts admirers
The name of Bahmed Deuff has come up in conversations RC Lens were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Wesley Saïd was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.66. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Thibault Paul kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
- Squad Matthieu Udol has had enough of the noise
- Squad Hamidou Makalou is a square peg at RC Lens
- Squad The first one for Mateo Retegui