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The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

So close: Dominik Greif’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Stade Brestois moved on, Dominik Greif reports back to Olympique Lyonnais, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais say no — this time

The offer from FC Metz for Tanner Tessmann 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

An offer of $2.9M for Marius Courcoul

Olympique Lyonnais have gone to Angers SCO 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 targets17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais baulk at the price for Daren Mosengo

Le Havre AC wanted more than $3.1M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais sell Nicolás Tagliafico for $3.6M

Nicolás Tagliafico has left for Paris Saint-Germain in a $3.6M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Nhoa Sangui 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. Nhoa Sangui is living that version at Olympique Lyonnais, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market17 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais buy the years ahead of Nhoa Sangui

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

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

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Olympique Lyonnais

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

In brief

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The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais pay KV Oostende $29.7M for a proper upgrade

KV Oostende did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $29.7M for Axel Onana, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Market10 Aug 2026

Nicolás Tagliafico agrees terms with Paris Saint-Germain

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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais spend $24.8M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $24.8M has been paid because Mattéo Guendouzi is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Market10 Aug 2026

Olympique Lyonnais turn down Le Havre AC for Dominik Greif

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $7.7M for Nhoa Sangui

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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mattéo Guendouzi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mattéo Guendouzi has just signed for Olympique Lyonnais, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $3.1M for Daren Mosengo

Olympique Lyonnais have gone to Le Havre AC 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

Olympique Lyonnais baulk at the price for Marius Courcoul

Angers SCO wanted more than $3.8M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Arnaud Bodart

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

In brief

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The Olympique Lyonnais Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $28.0M for Axel Onana

Olympique Lyonnais have gone to KV Oostende 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 targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $24.8M for Mattéo Guendouzi

Olympique Lyonnais have gone to Fenerbahce 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Enzo Loiodice 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. Enzo Loiodice 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

A row about effort at Olympique Lyonnais

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

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.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Pavel Šulc knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Pavel Šulc trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief