OGC Nice U18

French Ligue 1 U18
19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process
7 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Nowhere to hide for OGC Nice

0‑3 against LOSC Lille, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Player ratings

Sofiane Diop runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Samir El Mourabet

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

Squad

A falling-out at OGC Nice

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

Squad

The step up is real for Enguerrand Bouard

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

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.

Squad

Laurent Abergel signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Laurent Abergel commits to OGC Nice for another 3 years.

Boardroom

Doors closed at OGC Nice

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

The dugout

François Guillaume: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

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6 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

OGC Nice rebuffed over Kamory Doumbia

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

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 5 gone

That is the business done at OGC Nice until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad

Words exchanged at OGC Nice

Mohamed Amoura 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Martin Ponsot at OGC Nice

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Martin Ponsot is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Match

OGC Nice find a way past Olympique Lyonnais

Olympique Lyonnais made OGC Nice work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Gauthier Hein at the heart of a fast OGC Nice start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Gauthier Hein in the middle of it, and Olympique Lyonnais unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad

Words at OGC Nice training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Gouveia 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 ratings

Nobody could get near Ali Abdi

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Gauthier Hein

A mark of 7.99, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief

5 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Paris Saint-Germain tell OGC Nice: Lucas Chevalier 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.

Market

OGC Nice say no — this time

The offer from Olympique de Marseille for Yehvann Diouf 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.

Player ratings

Sofiane Diop beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yehvann Diouf

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

Squad

Yehvann Diouf 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.

Match

OGC Nice share the spoils with Paris FC

A 2‑2 draw with Paris FC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

A row about effort at OGC Nice

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marc-Aurel Koffi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Martin Ponsot wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and OGC Nice will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

4 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

OGC Nice run riot against RC Lens

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Transfer targets

OGC Nice rebuffed over Hákon Arnar Haraldsson

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

Player ratings

Both of them Mohamed Amoura's — 9.09

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.09, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

A brace, and Elye Wahi takes the afternoon — 8.57

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Elye Wahi provided it, and the 8.57 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets

No deal for Lucas Ocampos at that price

OGC Nice offered $8.0M; Monterrey said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Market

Business is business: Tanguy Ndombele goes

RC Lens paid $8.8M and OGC Nice took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings

Sofiane Diop runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Olympique de Marseille watching Yehvann Diouf

The interest is real enough to have reached print. OGC Nice have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

A falling-out at OGC Nice

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

In brief

  • Squad Words at OGC Nice training over how hard people work
  • The terraces The crowd has taken to Elye Wahi
  • Player ratings Isak Jansson turns it into his own net
3 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

OGC Nice rebuffed over Ismaïla Sarr

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

Squad

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.

Boardroom

1 academy graduates step up at OGC Nice

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

Andria Svanidze signs a new deal

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

Market

Alexandre Maillard steps up from the OGC Nice academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexandre Maillard has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Boardroom

The ground is getting bigger

The plans are signed off at a capacity of 34030. Decisions like this are judged twenty years later, by people who were not in the room when they were taken.

Squad

Ali Abdi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

The formation has left Guy Noël Zohouri behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. OGC Nice will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Jonathan Clauss

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against RC Lens in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief

2 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Too dear: OGC Nice walk away from Théo Hernández

$18.1M was the most the club would pay and Al-Hilal 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.

Market

Hicham Boudaoui moves on

Standard Liege pay $7.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market

OGC Nice say no — this time

The offer from RC Lens for Tanguy Ndombele 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.

Squad

Jonathan Clauss signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jonathan Clauss and OGC Nice agree another 3 years.

Squad

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.

Market

OGC Nice promote Raymond Clément from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raymond Clément has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Thibault Charpentier steps up from the OGC Nice academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Thibault Charpentier has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

Marc-Aurel Koffi falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

6 new faces, and OGC Nice are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

1 Edition

The OGC Nice Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $14.4M for Théo Hernández

OGC Nice have gone to Al-Hilal with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

RC Strasbourg tell OGC Nice: Joaquín Panichelli 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.

Market

OGC Nice turn down Mouscron 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.

Squad

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.

Market

Hicham Boudaoui attracts admirers

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

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Mohamed Amoura falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief