OGC Nice: Kasper Dolberg, the season of bad luck

He was the youthful face of Nice’s promises when he was recruited for € 20 million at Ajax Amsterdam, in August 2019, in the wake of the acquisition of Gym by Ineos. Kasper Dolberg embodied the change of dimension of the club and it was he who sent him to the Europa League, with a … Read more

Ligue 1 salaries: Mama Baldé, a top scorer who does not cost very much

Attackers generally cost more. In Dijon, if we do not take into account the bonuses, the club’s top scorer in Ligue 1 this season, Mama Baldé (6 achievements), with 40,000 euros per month, is not in the top 10 of the salaries of the DFCO. Only Irvin Cardona (8 goals), in Brest, is in the … Read more

Touches, prevention, pressing: three phases missed by Atlético against Chelsea

Forgotten security on set pieces? If Atlético are probably the most effective team of the decade to protect their goal, it is not only due to the harshness of their defensive animation. Diego Simeone also has a habit of guarding against blocks when his players get offensive set pieces. These can regularly turn into a … Read more

How the top clubs of the Champions League are going through the health crisis

All suffer but not all so much. In a football Europe that the pandemic could bleed “From 6.5 to 8.5 billion euros in 2020 and 2021”, according to Andrea Agnelli, boss of Juventus Turin and the European Club Association, the ten richest teams among the eighth-finalists of the Champions League (FC Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Bayern … Read more

Why Renato Sanches (Lille) entered as a striker in Nantes

Back as holder in Bordeaux, Wednesday (3-0), after almost three months of absence from the starting XI due to various muscle glitches, Renato Sanches was again on the bench at kick-off, Sunday in Nantes ( 2-0). Christophe Galtier did not take the risk of establishing his Portuguese particle accelerator twice in five days, which can … Read more

Strasbourg: how Bellegarde made himself indispensable to Racing

“To be honest, we’re having a little trouble finding the right job for him (laughs). » Thierry Laurey confessed, Wednesday, after the festival against Nîmes (5-0), his rich concern about the Franco-Haitian environment Jean-Ricner Bellegarde (22 years). The latest in a line of five brothers, the child from the city of Allende in Villetaneuse (Seine-Saint-Denis) … Read more

Franck Haise (Lens): “A little too carried away by the game”

RC Lens will travel to Rennes this Saturday (5 p.m.) with all its strength, with the exception of Cheick Traoré who finishes his re-athletic training in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines and Charles Boli who felt muscle discomfort in an ischio- leg and will be forfeited. The Artesian club lost for the first time this season at home this … Read more