OM doubled by Arsenal for Trossard, Sommer at Bayern and replaced by a Montpellier player, Nice’s third offer for Moffi, Lille targets a Roma flop, Lorient tries its luck for Faivre… Here is the Top 5 of the big transfer window files of the day not to be missed. Also discover the Foot Transfer Telegram, …
Absent since September 24 due to a serious calf problem, Mike Maignan has still not recovered. The AC Milan goalkeeper should not return for at least a month and a half. Maignan, not before March? The new titular goalkeeper of the France team should, except for a huge surprise, be called Mike Maignan (27 years …
FC Barcelona fans must make up their minds: Lionel Messi will probably never return as a player. The 35-year-old striker will extend with PSG, and the Catalan club will probably not move a finger to prevent him… Messi will be 37 when his next contract with Paris ends. Lionel Messi and FC Barcelona, it’s over …
Returning to his native land in Mar del Plata to celebrate the Albiceleste world championship title, Emiliano Martinez said he wanted at all costs to offer this coronation to Lionel Messi so that there would never be another no doubt that he is the best player of all time. “My dream was to give Lionel …
The end of the World Cup, last Sunday, of course marked the end of a month of competition, full of twists and turns, spectacular matches and stories to tell. It also marks, as is customary, the end of a cycle for coaches whose mandate often stretches from one World Cup to another. According to the …
Portugal, Brazil, Belgium… These nations are looking for a coach Read More »
Sidney Govou, how do you recover from a defeat in the World Cup final? Waking up must be complicated. Sidney Govou: So… From memory, we went back to Paris the next day, we went to the Hôtel du Crillon… You try to move on but you never get over it. In fact, you can’t recover …
Sidney Govou: “It’s impossible to recover from a defeat in the World Cup final” Read More »
1958: an offensive festival against the FRG for a first podium Outclassed by Brazil in the semi-finals of the Swedish World Cup in 1958 (2-5), the French team is opposed to the reigning world champion FRG in the small final. A sign of football from another time, the Blues won 6 goals to 3, with …
The most beautiful matches in the history of the Blues in the World Cup Read More »
Two World Cups, a quarter-final of the Euro. This is what the penalty shootouts have cost French football in just 16 years. No nation has done worse in this interval. Three sessions, three defeats, three of the biggest disappointments in the history of the Blues. After the elimination against Switzerland, Deschamps, Lloris and Varane had …
What would we have written? What would we have written if Randal Kolo Muani had scored and brought out, for one night, the immense emotions born of a world success (120th + 3)? There would have been talk, no doubt, of the crazy story of this 24-year-old kid, still in Boulogne-sur-Mer (N) three years ago. …
How Didier Deschamps’ coaching changed the course of the final Read More »
They touched it with their fingers and then the world collapsed on their heads. The Deschamps generation came within inches of a second consecutive title. It will take time, a long time to ease the pain. “Even if we have achieved great things, there is always this pain when we lose a final“, explained Hugo …
