Comments on: “LILLYON LOSC” (sorry for the copyright infringement Inara)

By: Aditya

Aditya — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:07:42 +0000

Now only defense remains.

By: Evilo

Evilo — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:00:59 +0000

Great signing, congrats.

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:25:09 +0000

Mounier is pretty good, besides Pentecote and Ducasse, he was the only brightspot on the disappointing French Toulon team. I was very impressed with his abilities, and I think he will be given more of a chance this year unless he gets a loan.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:46:21 +0000

Is it taken as a given that Kallstrom is leaving then? Seems a bit of a shame, and it’s always useful to have a left footed players, which our midfield now seems short of. All of the above players are right footed I think. Does anyone think there’s a possibility that Ben Arfa might stay now Puel is in charge? Would be like a new signing having him back in the team

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:52:22 +0000

Operation: bring Le LOSC to Lyon, phase 2 complete.

Though I’m sad to see some players leave (Toto, Kim, etc.), I can’t wait for the new squad with the new coach.

I’d hate to see Belhadj happening again to our midfield. Let’s hope all of them get to play. (And Mounier, I need to see Mounier play. I’ve seen him play like once, and it was pretty good..)

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:19:44 +0000

Bienvenue à toi, Jean II.

I think everything has been said about this signing. I’m very happy of this mercato… !
But now one question will stand by : What will be the organization next year, with all this incredible midfielders ?
What do you think about a 4-2-3-1 ?
That seems to me to be the only one solution to use everybody, with an important rotation because of all the competition we will play.

I can’t wait to see that :
DM : Makoun & Toulalan / Fabio Santos

AM : Keita/Govou/Delgado & Ederson/Juninho/Bodmer & Pjanic/Ben Arfa/Govou

Striker : Benzema/Fred (or somebody else ?)

What could be a 4-3-3 with this team ?
Toulalan
Makoun Ederson
Keita Govou
Benzema
???

Do you think this team can start with a classic 4-3-3, and become in the same game a 4-2-3-1 ? or 4-5-1 ?
We have so complete players, we can imagine lot of configurations !

In all case, that mean having a lot of great talent on the bench.

By: Inara

Inara — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:15:28 +0000

Corey: Aulas said that Fabio Santos was coming back. Anderson is the one that will be sacrificed to make room for all the non-EU players (Ederson, Delgado, Fred, Fabio Santos). Juni and Cris have EU passports now.

And yeah, obviously Real will have a more stacked midfield. They are stacked everywhere. But in terms of Lyon standards, they’ve never had as much depth as they do now.

Japple: I am SO excited. Puel said that Lyon have a lot of attacking players and that the squad needs to be balanced, so he’s definitely looking into defense. So far all the players we’ve been linked with are defenders.

By: japple

japple — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:09:40 +0000

now we just need to strengthen up that backline and we’re set. lyon fans everywhere should be excited for next season.

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:06:41 +0000

Goodbye to Fabio Santos then?

You want a stacked midfield, look at Real’s: Gago, Diarra, Javi Garcia, De la Red, Sneijder, Baptista, Guti, Granero. And those are just the central players!

By: Inara

Inara — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:56:04 +0000

We’re going to have such an awesome midfield next year.

Makoun, Toulalan, Bodmer, Ederson, Pjanic, Juninho, Fabio Santos…

The potential is terrifying.