Month: March 2024

Speaking in an Instagram Live, Tottenham Hotspur and Ivorian international right-back Serge Aurier discussed his Periscope scandal in 2016, where he insulted a host of key “Serge Aurier on Periscope scandal: “My family was not ready to receive all this hate.””

Speaking in an interview with TyC Sports, Sevilla winger Lucas Ocampos discussed being managed by Marcelo Bielsa at Marseille. “It was unique to be managed by “Lucas Ocampos on Marcelo Bielsa at Marseille: “He was like the professor in La Casa de Papel.””

Foot365 Afrique report that 17-year-old PSG right-back Jonathan Mutombo has put pen to paper and sign a professional contract with Les Parisiens. The deal will “Jonathan Mutombo signs professional deal with PSG, will move to Vitoria S.C. on loan”

Our colleague Mohamed Toubache-TER reports that 26-year-old RC Lens and Serbian central defender Aleksandar Radovanović is attracting serious interest from Bulgarian side Ludogorets. The player is “Ludogorets are after RC Lens defender Aleksandar Radovanović”

Speaking in an interview with L’Équipe, ex-Toulouse manager Antoine Kombouaré took aim at French football’s club governing body, the LFP, for deciding to relegate Les Violets “Ex-Toulouse boss Antoine Kombouaré calls for all Ligue 1 & Ligue 2 clubs to go on strike for “justice” for Amiens & Toulouse”

Challenges reports that there has been indirect contact between Saudi billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal and Frank McCourt over a possible sale of Ligue 1 club Marseille. “Intermediary contact between Al-Waleed bin Talal & Frank McCourt about possible OM acquisition”

PSG as of today have re-opened their merchandise stores at the Parc des Princes and on the Champs-Élysées, for the first time since the COVID-19 “PSG re-open Champs-Élysées and Parc des Princes merchandise stores”

Speaking as part of an exclusive interview with Get French Football News, ex-Marseille, OGC Nice and Amiens midfielder Fabrice Abriel discussed being managed by France boss “Exclusive | Fabrice Abriel on being managed by Didier Deschamps: “The word to best encapsulate him is control.””

Le Parisien report that 30-year-old French central defender Mamadou Sakho is interested in a possible return to Ligue 1 with Lyon, after Les Gones concretely “Mamadou Sakho is interested by a possible move to Lyon – Le Parisien”

Speaking on BFMTV, the French government’s Minister for Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, insisted that the LFP was responsible for terminating the 2019/20 campaign, not the government. “The “Minister for Sports Maracineanu insists that the LFP, not the government, cancelled the 2019/20 Ligue 1 season”