

Articles tagged with "claude-puel"
Govou Drunk (Again), ♥♥Player Love♥♥, LOTS of Stadium Photos, Etc.
By Inara | November 2nd, 2009Just some random odds and ends for you to read as you bide your time waiting for Lyon's Champions League clash with Liverpool. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <--- Sid's Serious ...
Nice 4 - 1 Lyon: French Comedy on the Riviera
By Inara | October 24th, 2009Goals: Nice (Bagayoko 17, Cissokho o.g. 40, Hellebuyck 69, Remy 74), Lyon (Ederson 84). Warnings: Nice (Coulibaly 5), Lyon (Cissokho 21, Gonalons 53, Reveillere 77) The entire ...
Random News and Updates
By Inara | October 9th, 2009With World Cup qualifiers about to take place, there isn't too much happening at club level. But there are a few articles and updates that ...
Despite collapse, Gomis is "100% healthy"
By Dave Trotter | October 8th, 2009Despite the collapse suffered by Bafe Gomis yesterday as a result of this vasovagal condition episode during Wednesday's practice, Olympique Lyonnais physician Emmanuel Orhant said ...
Matchday: Lens-Lyon (Stade Félix Bollaert)
By Xavier | October 3rd, 2009This afternoon Lens will welcome an in form Lyon side to the Stade Félix Bollaert. Coming off their worst performance of the season the sang ...
Match Report: PSG 1-1 Lyon
By Thomas | September 22nd, 2009Report: We really just can't deal with those last five minutes, can we? Lyon traveled to Paris on Sunday in an extremely important match, one that ...
Another Striker is Nice, But...
By Inara | July 29th, 2009Lyon are continuing their spending spree by shelling out €13m for St. Etienne's Bafetimbi Gomis (plus another €2m in incentives). His cool name and awesome ...
A Delectable Luxury Import from the Land of LOSC
By John | July 17th, 2009Lyon Can Finally Fly Straight Again: OL's New Winger Swoops into Town, Hopefully to Take Us to New Heights. No, it's not a Ferrari nor Beluga ...
WEEKLY TRANSER RUMOR ROUND-UP PART III
By John | July 3rd, 2009[gallery] Hotting up. IN: Lisandro Lopez: JMA himself was supposed to be in Portugal today to personaly finalize the deal for Lisandro, but management dropped ...
SUMMER CLEANING: OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW?
By John | May 26th, 2009[gallery] Five veteren players who might be on the way out this summer. Lyon reached a turning point in this season in that there was an influx ...
Let's Just Pretend That the Last Week Never Happened
By Inara | March 17th, 2009Lyon still have a one point lead (thanks, Marseille!), no new injuries have befallen the squad, and the sun is still shining. So this is ...
Fred Terminates His Lyon Contract
By Inara | February 26th, 2009Break out the party hats and start celebrating! Fred, who is currently suntanning in Brazil, has decided never to return to Lyon. He's terminated his contract ...
Newsies For This Week
By Inara | February 11th, 2009I plan to post a much longer entry tomorrow about Lyon's winter transfer season (or lack thereof), but for now, here are some other things ...
Alain Perrin is Coming Home!
By Inara | February 1st, 2009Sort of, anyway. Alain Perrin took over management of St. Etienne last November, after the last derby that took place in August. Today will be bittersweet ...
L'OL = LOL
By Inara | November 12th, 2008If any of you read my match preview of yesterday's Coupe de la Ligue game against Metz, you can see that I was expecting a ...
Lyon Get Their Asses Whupped
By Inara | October 5th, 2008These 3-0 losses are starting to turn into a yearly ritual. A humiliating one. The game was so bad that Lyon's official website posted a ...
Build Your Own Team: Part III
By Inara | August 20th, 2008A new coach, several new players, new tactical systems...so I figured it was time for another team building exercise. I can't resist this picture. It's Lyon ...
Transfer Gossip
By John | August 19th, 2008Lens Reserve and France U18 LB Thimothee Kolodziejczak Well, as the transfer window nears, Lyon look to bolster their defense as well as move out some ...
Lyon vs. Lorient Preview
By John | August 16th, 2008Benzema celebrates after scoring Lyon's only goal in last year's 2-1 loss to Lorient. This week, Lyon travel to Brittany to face FC Lorient at Le ...
Benzo on the Upcoming Season
By John | August 9th, 2008Lyon's favorite son and patron saint of goal-scoring, Karim Benzema expressed his feelings about the upcoming season in a recent interview in L'Equipe. Karim speaks ...
Frederic Piquionne is Lyonnais, No One Really Cares
By Inara | July 31st, 2008Right. So Frederic Piquionne is a Lyon player. He was nabbed for €4.5m on a four year contract from Monaco. Everyone is excited. Really. *tumbleweeds* Or maybe ...
Lyon Continue Their Pillage of Lille
By Inara | July 28th, 2008Just when Lille fans thought that Lyon was done plundering their club of their most valuable assets, it turns out that Lille's club doctor, Emmanuel ...
Oh That Eto'o Rumor
By Inara | July 26th, 2008I wasn't planning a post on Lyon's supposed interest in Samuel Eto'o because I thought that these rumors would have blown away by now, but ...
The "Rock of Gibralter" In Lyon.
By John | July 22nd, 2008My second favorite signing of the season- and I'm sure Cris' favorite- was realized on Monday. John Mensah is officially Lyon's new left-center back. ...
Transfer Rumors and Tidbits
By John | July 21st, 2008Although we've all been waiting for the eventual signing of The Rock, John Mensah -which should happen today, Monday- there are other smaller happenings in ...
Photo of the Day: Is This What They Call Team Building?
By Laurie | July 17th, 2008A lot of European teams are heading back into training. Step one? Bonding with their new teammates. And in some cases, their ...
Tignes: The Deal So Far + Pictures
By Inara | July 10th, 2008As most of you probably know, Lyon have started their pre-season training at Tignes, a ski resort in the Alps on the Italian border. Lyon ...
Mini-Transfer Update
By John | July 9th, 2008Nothing major to report on the transfer front. Most of the info from Inara's last transfer post is still up to date. Here's the latest: ...
The Ben Arfiles: Hatem Ben Arfa trained today!
By Magnusson | July 1st, 2008As he announced, Hatem Ben Arfa was present and trained with his teammates (or maybe not. I'm not sure how to call them) while Claude ...
The Ben-Arfiles*: OL vs. HBA? It is ... ON!
By Magnusson | June 29th, 2008[*= The Ben Arfiles is the name I'm gonna give all the articles on Hatem Ben Arfa until his situation is sorted out. The name ...





