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The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais pay Mouscron $45.3M for a proper upgrade

Mouscron did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $45.3M for Adnan Batshuayi, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Too dear: Olympique Lyonnais walk away from Diego Coppola

$18.8M was the most the club would pay and Paris FC 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

PSV tell Olympique Lyonnais: Ryan Flamingo 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais sell Dominik Greif for $10.4M

Dominik Greif has left for LOSC Lille in a $10.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Adnan Batshuayi would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Adnan Batshuayi is living that version at Olympique Lyonnais, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais sign Trévis Dago for $2.7M

The paperwork is done: Trévis Dago joins from Stade Lavallois in a deal worth $2.7M. Now comes the harder part.

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais say no — this time

The offer from Sheffield Wednesday for Hakim Ziyech 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Loïs Openda in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Olympique Lyonnais this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Olympique Lyonnais

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

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The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

$45.3M settles it between the clubs for Adnan Batshuayi

Mouscron have accepted the money. What Olympique Lyonnais do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $18.8M for Diego Coppola

Olympique Lyonnais have gone to Paris FC 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 targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Diogo Dalot

Olympique Lyonnais asked and Manchester United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market10 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais get their man

The chase for Hamza Igamane ended with $11.7M changing hands and LOSC Lille out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market10 Aug 2026

Khalis Merah agrees terms with Bourg-Peronnas

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Olympique Lyonnais people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais baulk at the price for Marius Courcoul

Angers SCO wanted more than $3.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market10 Aug 2026

LOSC Lille watching Dominik Greif

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Hamza Igamane arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Hamza Igamane has, at Olympique Lyonnais, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market10 Aug 2026

Cremonese come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Olympique Lyonnais did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

In brief

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The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais make their move for Adnan Batshuayi

$24.3M on the table at Mouscron. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Sunderland tell Olympique Lyonnais: Nordi Mukiele 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

No deal for Willian Pacho at that price

Olympique Lyonnais offered $23.0M; Paris Saint-Germain 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Hakim Ziyech would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Hakim Ziyech is living that version at Olympique Lyonnais, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Corentin Tolisso stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Corentin Tolisso and Olympique Lyonnais agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Olympique Lyonnais

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

Market3 Aug 2026

Tanner Tessmann wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Olympique Lyonnais hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Olympique Lyonnais training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tanner Tessmann 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Olympique Lyonnais has picked up the phone to Corentin Tolisso

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief