Jozy to Lyon? Say it isn’t so!

Veloso would be a good signing, whether he is interested in Lyon after being touted by the bigger boys in Europe remains to be seen. Demichellis I would not be to keen on, he doesnt work in our system of play, he is probably to robust and lacking in mobility. And I would rather we dont have Delgado, I remain unconvinced of his benefits.

apparently Fox Sports En Espanol is confirming that Cesar Delgado is joining. Plus im watching the Cruz Azul game and he isnt mentioned (my spanish listening skills are sub par, even though im ecuadorian ). But HIS reason for joining lyon are funny to me, he's joining to better his chances to play for the Argentina National Team. He must not be aware of those two guys named Messi and Tevez playing in Europe also.

Crosas is far, far to inexperienced to fight the cause against man u-he has only made a handfull of proffesional appearences-here how bout demichellis of bayern in DM who can play CB to. ...not cup tied!

The staff gave up the idea of signing L.Diarra.
Other names are being mentioned, like Marc Crosas from Barça.

Nevertheless I would prefer Veloso from Sporting Portugal, since he can play as DM, CB and LB.

Yer but inara, we are playing who i think are the best team in the world(man utd) and im a pesimist who thinks we will go out so we would only need the player in your opinion for 1/2 games ?

its official now

Fabio Santos loaned to São Paulo for six months

he said that he wanted to stay , and he will be back

I just resd thst lyon want to sign diarra but that they think arsene wenger wont let him go-???????????????????-WOT??????? A. Arsene wenger barely plays diarra except from in cup compititions which he doesnt care about anyway. B. Diarra let a story out in the french press saying he wanted to leave---- Again the fact lyon have said they want him but he kind of isnt available is bullshit! Yet again its the stingy board not willing to pull there weight in transfers-Diarra wouldnt be expensive anyway-about 5mill(english sterling)- and also the lacombe guy is happy not to sign a left back and just play bodmer or kallstom there instead-tite bastards! Dont even talk to me about the swap of fred for delgado because ill probly want to murder Aulas!!

ok i'm from brazil and i bring some news about Fabio Santos

His wife is pregnant and she wants her child to birth at Brazil

You can read the full notice (already translated) here

http://translate.google.com/tr...

and Inara people got abducted everywhere not only in Brazil

Brazil is a very nice country to live believe me

:D

Jo, isnt Sesseignon more of outside player then a defensive midfielder? Or he has he had a re-birth in central midfield? If we were going to buy someone from Le Mans it would have to be Mathieu Coutaduer, he is a fantastic player, he is the next Toulalan for me. And a left back, why not buy Jeremy Mathieu before Roma does, this would be quite the signing if we could get him.

Diarra would be okay, but he wouldnt want to be a backup and he wouldnt get much time a la Fabio Santos, which is a shame to see him leave but if he has to family reasons then very well, you do what you have to do. He won me over though, so I applaud him. Hopefully he will be back. And Mirallas, he would be a good player to acquire and mold into a striker, because for Belgium thats where he plays, yeah he starts for Belgium at 19 along with Axel Witsel, Vincent Kompany, Anthony van de Borre, Maroune Felliani and Steven Defour. Now that I think about it, Maroune Felliani would be a great pickup at defensive mid as well, very tall, strong, and a good tackler.

As a DM, I agree with Lassana Diarra. I like this player, but he seems to be kind of childish "a-la-Fred". And he would not stand to be Toulalan's backup.
I think about Sesseignon or Romaric, who both play at Le Mans. I like these players, they can easily be good DM backup after Toulalan.
What do you think about them ?

Well for
dm-L.diarra- Agood player who is cheap($6mill euros) and available and only 21
ST-Cassano, a very good player and out of favour at real madrid so will surely be available to purchase.
LB-Zaccardo of palermo-may be looking for a bigger club (both yhe 2 italian players can spur on grosso maybe?)
CB-Anderson polga

Corey: interesting stats. Still dont know if Lyon would look to acquire Mirallas, but hey if they do, why not include Jean II Makoun as well lol. Would fill 2 of our 4 needs

I was having a look at some stats today, preparing for my new France Offside job, and I noticed something interesting. Several of you have repeatedly put down my suggestion of signing Kevin Mirallas, right winger come striker of Lille. His goal scoring rate is not great you say. This may be true, but have a look at this.

Shots on Goal: 1. 16 Benzema 2. 13 Mirallas 3. 13 Pascal Feinduono

now that were in the market for a new DM, what names can we put out there that have a chance ?

Any way, quite franckly Delgado is not at all good enough to replace fred-its obvious fred $16mill-Delgado-$3mill- if Aulas says that delgado is the streight out replacement for fred its a disgrace!

What about the striker situation-Delgado is more(crap) of a forward/winger type player and seeing as Fred is leaving? We wanted a striker in the summer when we had three strikers, so now dont we need 2. ..... we cant just rely on benzema- its not good enough or fair on him despite how good he is- (also he will be at euro 2008)

belhadj wanted to start to much to stay, and he's flexible in the wrong direction: we need an LB who can go to the center (like abidal) instead of playing in midfield. My guess is OL will shell out for a good one this month, one good enough to put grosso on the bench.

fred is a big baby and a bad element to have on your team. if nanar is fed up with him he's probably history, but i wouldn't put paid to that yet. baros can't threaten benzema for the top spot but does play better with him so it's no like we're in meltdown.

fabio santos going to sao paolo on loan, that frees up the extra-EC spot. i'm sorry to see him go but apparently he has family issues, so it's not an "i hate OL" thing. maybe he'll be back next year, maybe not.

squillaci and toulalan are not out, they were pulled just to take no chances.

govou apparently will be back beginning of february, which is normal for a normal "claquage", but lucky for these aponevrotic thingies, RVR had one a while back that sidelined him about 3 months.

btw, creteil wasn't chopped liver, and playing the A side was neither foolish nor cowardly; if they hadn't had this CdF match OL might have even scheduled an easy friendly to get warmed up for the second half.

finally, about the real subject of this thread, i have 2 questions:

1) jozy WHO???

2) freddy WHO???

Benzema scored a great hat-trick... ok it was just Creteil.

As Inara said, I think Perrin wanted to start the year a positive way. we all know all went wrong last year from day 1 of 2007. I also think he wanted to play with Baros in this role to see how he was doing. We have no Keita nor Govou, and I think he wanted to get the 3 B'a to plys together up front to see.
Ben Arfa played like a mad man today. He wasted some balls by trying to do it all by himself, but I don't mind because he also gave a great ball on the first goal.

As for Fred, it seems he is going to PSG. Even Lacombe said he was about to sign there. I would be glad if it could be the case, it would keep him in france and maybe bring him back right to the top. Brazilians have always done well in Paris, and I don't see him fail there.

Aulas will definitely bring in a defender, especially since they sold Belhadj.

As for Santos, I don't think Lyon are selling him, just loaning him to San Paolo. apparently Santos asked that to the Lyon management for personal problems. So if it the case, I would be happy to see Santos loaned and come back after 6 months... but you never know with those loan things.

Woohoo! And I already know who scores, but I still get to see HOW.

Great! How did he do? I didnt watch the match.

Corey, good point about Perrin's cowardice. I read in L'Equipe a qoute by Lacombe saying Fabio Santos may be loaned out to Sao Paolo. Does anyone know what they are doing about the back-up DMF and LB? Can Bodmer play DMF?

Why would Perrin put that formation out for such an unimportant game? Stupid.

As for Kaaraboue, he is a right winger, much like Govou and Remy, and is a France youth international, much like Govou and Remy. I believe he has more potential then Remy, and he has been named to the subs bench a few times this year. If Remy were to leave the Karaaboue would take his spot in the team, but as he is 18 or 19 he still has a year or so in the CFA. A loan next season may be a good idea depending on our right wing situation.

As for Mounier, I think he also has tremendous potential, and its a shame he doesnt even get substitute appearances, and I attribute this to Perrin being a coward and never taking a risk. He did very well in preseason and with Keita gone and Govou injured, Ben Arfa may need to play on the right and Mounier can slot in on the left, or like Inara said, he can do a decent job as a small but very fast striker. He could play in a 4-4-2 as well, and I would like to see him loaned out for the year if he isnt gonna play, he will replace Ben Arfa one day when he leaves. Id also like Roman Beynie to get a loan and Sandy Paillot to get a game, today he should have but yet again, Perrin is a coward.

Damn. Media Player is running with no sound on an itty bitty 2x3 screen I can't even see, and TVAnts says I need to pay for access. I would have loved to have seen this game. :-(

Nice and comfortable score to go into half time with! so can we make it 6:0 by half time?

3x0

Juninho goal

another goal from benzema!

2x0 to Lyon

http://myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?...

really bad streams with low resolution

Yeeeesss yet another goal for Benzema

I only have text streams, perhaps someone else has a link for viewing?

Any good link to watch the game of tonight?

This evening's line up:
Coupet Anderson Clerc Grosso Squillaci Toulalan Juninho Källström Benzema Baros Ben Arfa

It's now official Belhadj is leaving for Lens. Too bad he really was undervalued. Let's hope Fred departure is the next in line

Great. Lyon absolutely need to hold on to Benzema

hmmm Mounier is a tough call. We already play with 2 youngsters. We can't just put all our young players out at the same time. BUT I do think Mounier is a great replacement possibility during ﾞsmallerﾞ games. He knows he can't request a starting place yet so he wouldn't disturb the team's harmony. Still if Delgado does come I'd rather see him loaned than losing the most important years of his career to develop his abilities.

Please no !!!
We have to keep Mounier, I know he's such a great player ! Believe me.
He needs playing time, I'd like to see him playing tomorrow in Coupe de France, against Créteil.
Mounier can be the back-up for Ben Arfa, during the CAN (Keita is missing, so we just have Govou on the right and Ben Arfa on the left... And Govou is unavailable ! We doesn't have enough wingers for the team !)
Kallstrom can play on the left, and Clerc on the right, but I'd prefer to see them at their right spot...
JMA ! KEEP MOUNIER please !

If we buy a fourth winger (Delgado), then we definitely have to loan Mounier to another L1 or L2 club which will give him more playing time.

Corey, I'm afraid I have to plead total ignorance in regards to Karaaboue. Is he a right-winger? Can Mounier play on the right?

Keita will be leaving for the Nations Cup, but I still would have liked to have seen Remy go out on loan. We have Loosemy Karaaboue and Anthony Mounier as back up for Ben Arfa and Govou still. Im interested to see who comes in and who leave this winter. I dont think Belhadj is a forgone conclusion yet, neither is Fred, and Delgado I pray is not bought.

By the points you both have made, John And storm, i too am glad that Loic Remy is around. It your time now Remy, show us what you can do.

Is Keita off to the ACN? If yes, then I'm glad Remy is sticking-around to back-up Govou.

Good riddance to Fred. Would rather have a hungry striker with half the talent. I miss Wiltord. Now that was/still is a professional.

Well you all know that I rate Fred very high as a player, and seeing him leave pisses me off. But he is too childish. I am always surprised of how easy it is for players to get on the transfer list. Just cry or don't turn up and your wish is granted. kind of stupid.

I would have liked Perrin to use more Belhadj in a rotation with Grosso (same as in RB). The only game I remember him playing in is the trafalgar against Barca.

Good luck to you Nadir

It would be interesting to see what would happen to the popularity of the club in the US if Altidore were to come to Lyon. Maybe ESPN would give Tommy Smyth strict orders to become an OL fan.
Of course I dont think he will come but having attended a few Red Bulls games here in NY I can say that for his age he does show a lot of promise. As a backup striker Lyon could do worse.

Ronald - Govou took a knock during the Nancy match. Sounds like he's out for Sunday's match but I'm not sure how much longer.

Well,not quite what i had in mind when i talked about having strikers, however i dont think this kid will cross the border to lyon. Esspecially now that EPL(top half clubs)teams are in the hunt and also money giants Real madrid to. Although i know there intrested in just about every player under the sun! Altidore is OK, currently I think he is about as good as Delgado, having said that altidore has more talent and 8 years younger so i probabilly would prefer ALtidore-BUT a defender is top of the list!

we need monsters around our goal

if he werent too old i would bring on Jaap Stam

Govou's injured ?! i didn't know that!

I agree totally about Fred - no question about his talent but enough is enough, as a total package we're definately better off without him and focusing on a good replacement.
I have to say I'm slightly relieved at the refusal of 40m € for Benzema, although logically we have to keep him, when the numbers get big (as in 40m €) I'm always slightly nervous about what JMA will do.

Good news re Coupet - who should be playing on Sunday. Does anyone know how long Govou is injured for?

As an OL Supporter, I'm Soooo sad that Belhadj leave.
As a RC Lens supporter, I'm sooooooo excited to see him coming !
I love this player, and what I can see of him at Tola Vologe and during games, he's a very talented players that only needs to play to become a superstar.
I'm also fed up with Fred. He's such a child. I don't want Lyon to sell him less than they paid for him; but I cannot see another solution to get rid of him.
I don't know Jozy Altidore at all. Where is he playing ?
Inara, do you have more informations on him ?

hmmmmmm, i don't believe the Jozy Altidore rumors either. Im the type that has to see it to believe it. So sad for Fred......"What happened man ? ". Loic Remy in my opinion should have taken one of the loan offers, as i don't see him displacing Ben Arfa, Govou, Keita or even baros anytime soon. And finally i wish Belhadj the best, from the limited time i saw him, he was an very decent player.

Very dissapointing. No mention of buying a centre half. Selling one of the best goal scorers around, Fred. All these stories of selling players. I'm really believing Lyon are not only a feeder club to bigger clubs, but Fred goin to Betis and Fabio Santos back to Brazil??? Belhadj to Lens? Surely these guys will be taking big pay cuts.

Belhadj to Lens.
Shame on OL staff. You will see Grosso's limits very soon.