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Marseille interested in taking Maupay
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Marseille interested in taking Maupay

Olympique de Marseille are considering signing Everton striker Neal Maupay (28) on loan, according to a report this Monday from L’Equipe. The 28-year-old is entering his final contract year with Sean Dyche’s Toffees. Marseille are in the market for a centre-forward in the wake of Faris Moumbagna’s ACL rupture. The outlet understands that the OGC Nice youth product is high on Les Phocéens‘ shortlist to bolster their attacking options. Maupay was an unused substitute for Everton’s season-opening 3-0 home defeat against Brighton and Hove Albion. The 28-year-old is reportedly keen to join Roberto De Zerbi’s side and return to Ligue 1. Marseille are planning to sign a centre-forward on loan, which means their pursuit of Inter Milan’s Uruguayan striker Martin Satriano would be ruled out. ...
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Bombito joins Nice on deal through 2028
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Bombito joins Nice on deal through 2028

Another Canadian is headed to Ligue 1.Nice announced the signing of centre-back Moïse Bombito from the Colorado Rapids on Monday. The 24-year-old Montreal native joins the team on a deal through 2028.“Moïse is considered one of the best defenders in North America,” Nice sporting director Florian Maurice said in a statement. “He has great physical qualities and a lot of potential for growth. He makes a strong impact on the pitch, with a commanding presence and a strong personality. He just had a successful Copa America where Canada reached the semi-finals. We are convinced that he will bring a lot to the team.”A product of New Hampshire, Bombito was the third overall selection of the 2023 MLS SuperDraft.He made 29 league appearances for the Rapids over two seasons, scoring two go...
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Angel Gomes update after sickening head injury in Lille’s clash with Reims
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Angel Gomes update after sickening head injury in Lille’s clash with Reims

Angel Gomes says he is doing ‘okay’ and ‘feeling good’ after suffering a nasty head injury in Lille’s clash with Reims on Saturday.Goals from Bafode Diakite and Jonathan David sealed Lille a comfortable 2-0 victory in their Ligue 1 opener, but Gomes’ worrying injury in the 11th minute overshadowed the match at the Stade Auguste-Delaune. The 23-year-old midfielder, formerly of Manchester United, collided in the air with Reims defender Amadou Kone, who was shown a red card for the challenge by referee Eric Wattellier. The game had to be put on hold for 34 minutes while medical staff treated Gomes, with both sets of fans singing and chanting the player’s name throughout the deeply troubling scenes. Gomes was subsequently strapped to a stretcher and carried from the field shortly befo...
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Booed but Greenwood stars in Marseille debut

Mason Greenwood scored twice in his debut for Marseille in a 5-1 victory over Brest in their French league opener Saturday. Greenwood, the former Manchester United forward who made a controversial move to Marseille this summer, had a hand in all five goals as he also provided two assists and won a penalty that Elye Wahi converted. Greenwood's first Ligue 1 appearance was greeted with boos that echoed throughout Brest's Francis-Le Blé stadium every time he touched the ball. The forward, 22, was arrested in 2022 and later charged with attempted rape, controlling and coercive behaviour and assault. The case was dropped last year. Brest, who finished third last season and are set to compete in the Champions League, struggled throughout the match. A missed penalty by Romain Del Castillo in t...
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West Ham make enquiry over a move for PSG star Carlos Soler

West Ham have enquired about a move for Spain and Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Carlos Soler. The Hammers have been one of the surprise big spenders with Aaron Wan-Bissaka's arrival on Wednesday the eighth signing made by new boss Julen Lopetegui so far this summer. While they have recruited heavily in defence - with Wan-Bissaka joined by Max Kilman and Jean-Clair Todibo - West Ham appear to have set their sights on reinforcements in the middle of the park. With James Ward-Prowse, Edson Alvarez, Tomas Soucek and Guido Rodriguez in the centre, they are fairly well stocked for midfielders, yet the club have now approached PSG over Soler's availability. Primarily a central midfielder, Soler came through the ranks at Valencia before departing for the French capital in the summer windo...
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Marseille’s Pau López to be loaned out to Girona

Olympique de Marseille goalkeeper Pau López (29) is set to spend the upcoming season on loan at La Liga side Girona FC, according to reports from L’Equipe and RMC Sport. The Spaniard is expected to leave the Ligue 1 club after three seasons at the Vélodrome. Les Phocéens already sanctioned his exit and planned for the future without him in signing Geronimo Rulli (32) and Jeffrey de Lange (26) during this summer transfer window. L’Equipe understands that Girona’s loan move for López will include a €6.5m option to make his move permanent at Estadi Montilivi. The City Football Group-owned Girona FC will feature in the revamped 36-team Champions League on the back of their remarkable third-place finish in the last La Liga campaign. The outlet adds that Girona FC will take charge of López’...
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PSG in discussion with Man United over Jadon Sancho’s availability

Paris Saint-Germain remain in discussions with Manchester United regarding the availability of Jadon Sancho who returned to the club this summer following a loan spell with Borussia Dortmund. Any deal that could be struck for Sancho is separate to the one being negotiated between PSG and United for Argentinian midfielder Manuel Ugarte.RMC Sport say that Sancho, 25, is 'interested in joining the Parisian club', but United would only let him leave if PSG meet their asking price of around £51million. It comes after Erik Ten Hag had revealed new plans for the £77m star last week, with the Dutchman stating that the England forward could play more centrally as a No 9 in the Dutchman's front three.'Jadon can, of course, play as a striker,' Ten Hag said, when asked on his position. 'He c...
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Nice reject approaches from multiple clubs for Evann Guessand

According to a report by L’Équipe, at the start of the summer transfer window, Evann Guessand’s future at OGC Nice looked far from certain. The French outlet writes that Guessand had rejected a contract extension in January which was reportedly far below his expectations, while Nice unofficially were willing to listen to offers for the forward if they were around the €20 million mark. This situation is far removed from the one that Guessand and Nice now find themselves in. The forward has become vital after Terem Moffi (25) suffered an ACL rupture that will likely rule him out of the majority of the upcoming season. The absence of Moffi means that Nice have only Guessand and Gaëtan Laborde (30) in their striking rotation. And in recent days, this has led to the club reopening talks w...
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Official: RC Strasbourg sign Caleb Wiley on loan from Chelsea

Apparently this deal was not quite officially official before, but it is now. Young left back Caleb Wiley has joined RC Strasbourg on loan for the season, just as it was expected when he signed with Chelsea the other week — and just as it was expected when Strasbourg themselves were pursuing the 19-year-old US Olympian. For whatever reason, Strasbourg ended up not signing him directly; instead he’s on Chelsea’s books and now he takes up a precious international loan spot as well (precious because we have dozens of players who need loan assignments, and FIFA limits international loan to just six — gone are the days of Michael Emenalo’s Free-wheeling, free-dealing Loan Army!). Wiley is our second loanee at RCSA after Andrey Santos. Goalkeeper Đorđe Petrović was recently linked as well — th...
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Myron Boadu is loaned to VFL Bochum

AS Monaco announces the loan of striker Myron Boadu to VfL Bochum for the 2024-2025 season. Last season, Myron Boadu featured in 10 matches with the Club before joinign, in January, FC Twente, in the Eredivisie. With The Tukkers, the 23 year old striker featured in 11 matches, scoring three goals as helped the team finish in third place in the Dutch league. From now, the AS Monaco number 23 will discover a new league as he joins vFl Bochum in the German Bundesliga.
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Mika Faye wanted by Monaco, talks underway

Barcelona center-back Mika Faye has been heavily linked with a move away from the Catalan club this summer, and the 20-year-old has a new suitor. That’s according to French football transfer expect Santi Aouna, who reports that AS Monaco, Barça’s opponent in this year’s Joan Gamper Trophy, have expressed strong interest in Faye and already made preliminary contacts with the club and the player’s agents. Faye nearly left Barça to join FC Porto earlier this summer but ultimately decided to reject the offer, but the report says Faye would be interested in a move to France and is now more inclined to leave having had limited playing time in preseason under Hansi Flick and having stiff competition to earn first team minutes at center-back. Barça currently have Faye, Jules Kounde, Andreas Chr...
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Kylian Mbappe set to buy French football club after leaving Paris Saint-Germain this summer

 Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain celebrates victory in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys on April 16, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.Real Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappe has barely left France, after joining Los Blancos once his contract at Paris Saint-Germain expired, but already he is looking to get back involved in French domestic football.The 25-year-old is set to become the majority shareholder at Ligue 2 side SM Caen, as per Ouest France, and carried by MD. Mbappe will invest just under €20m in order to buy an 80% stake off American investment group Oaktree. Pierre Antoine Capton, the current administrative president, owns the other 20%, and some of Mbappe’s purchase outlay will go...
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Marseille working on loan with purchase clause for Arsenal star

Eddie Nketiah of Arsenal FC during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Luton Town at Emirates Stadium on April 3, 2024 in London, England.Marseille are working on a deal to sign Arsenal striker Eddie Nketiah on loan with a mandatory purchase clause in the ongoing transfer window.The French giants have already signed Mason Greenwood from Manchester United and are set to finalise the capture of Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.Roberto De Zerbi is looking to add more strength to Marseille’s attack and is keen to continue shopping in the Premier League.Nketiah has been discussed internally at the club for a while and Marseille reportedly tabled their first offer over the weekend.According to French sports daily L’Equipe, Marseille are working on signing the forwar...
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‘I’m against extremes and divisive ideas’, says Mbappe

 Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain looks on during the warm up prior to the UEFA Champions League 2023/24 round of 16 first leg match between Paris Saint-Germain and Real Sociedad at Parc des Princes on February 14, 2024 in Paris, France.France superstar and captain Kylian Mbappe on Sunday declared himself “against extremes and divisive ideas” when asked about crucial upcoming legislative elections in the country.Mbappe did not explicitly speak out against or in favour of any party ahead of the elections, the first round of which will take place on June 30 with the second round on July 7.However, the striker defended comments made on Saturday by his teammate Marcus Thuram, saying he “had not gone too far” in calling on the country “to fight every day to stop” the far-right National...
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Dembélé says he performs better at PSG because of Luis Enrique and physios

 Ousmane Dembele of Paris Saint-Germain poses for a 'selfie' with the PlayStation Player Of The Match award after the team's victory in the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg match between FC Barcelona and Paris Saint-Germain at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys on April 16, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. Paris Saint-Germain forward Ousmane Dembélé has spoken while on international duty about his recent form.The forward says he’s arriving to the French national team at the UEFA European Championship in better form now due to better conditioning and a more understanding coach in his current club.“I hope it will continue like this. [What’s helping me is] the preparation with the PSG staff: the physical trainers, the physios...”“Luis Enrique has also given me rest in some games. ...
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PSG and French football prepare for challenges of post-Mbappe era

Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain is seen in action during the Ligue 1 match between Paris Saint-Germain and Clermont Foot at Parc des Princes on June 03, 2023 in Paris, France. Paris Saint-Germain finished the season with a domestic double after beating Lyon in Saturday's French Cup final but will now start building for another assault on the Champions League next year, this time without Kylian Mbappe.The France captain brought the curtain down on his seven-year spell at PSG in the 2-1 win over Lyon, in which he failed to add to his club-record tally of 256 goals as Ousmane Dembele and Fabian Ruiz netted on the night.It was a deserved victory against a Lyon team who had been the best side in France in the second half of the season, after sitting bottom of the table in December.But...
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PSG wins the French Cup and the double in Kylian Mbappe’s last game

 Paris Saint-Germain's French forward #07 Kylian Mbappe kisses the trophy on the podium after winning the French Cup Final football match between Olympique Lyonnais (OL) and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) at the Stade Pierre-Mauroy, in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, northern France on May 25, 2024. Paris  beat Lyon 2-1 in the French Cup final and completed the double in Kylian Mbappé’s last game for the club on Saturday.France winger Ousmane Dembele and Spain midfielder Fabian Ruiz scored for PSG in the first half.Lyon defender Jake O'Brien got a consolation goal in the second half.PSG won the league and cup for the first time since 2020 when it achieved a domestic treble by also lifting the now defunct League Cup.Despite losing in the final, Lyon still qualified for the Europa League by fin...
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Radoslaw Majecki extends his contract until 2028

Radoslaw MAJECKI (asm) during the Ligue 1 Uber Eats match between Lyon and Monaco at Groupama Stadium on April 28, 2024 in Lyon, France.AS Monaco are delighted to announce the extension of Radoslaw Majecki's contract. The 24-year-old Polish goalkeeper is now tied to the club until June 2028.After arriving from Legia Warsaw in the winter of 2020 and spending last season on loan at Cercle Brugge, Radoslaw Majecki played an active role in the club’s results in the second half of the 2023-24 season, contributing to the return to the Champions League, finishing 2nd in Ligue 1.At the start of January, his match against RC Lens in the Coupe de France, crowned by a successful penalty shoot-out that gave his side victory, launched his season in the best possible way.In Ligue 1 Uber Eats, the 1.93m ...
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Luis Enrique Guides PSG to Ligue 1 Dominance

 Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique answers journalists during a press conference at Campus PSG on May 18, 2024 in Paris, France.Despite welcoming a new manager in Luis Enrique this 2023-24 season, Paris Saint-Germain continued their Ligue 1 dominance, clinching their 12th league title this campaign. After several years coaching FC Barcelona and the Spain national football team, Enrique ventured to France for the first time in his coaching career after joining PSG last summer to become their manager. The 54-year-old has the PSG squad dominating in several categories, which helps explain why they won the league this season. The Parisians are first in goals scored (75), first in expected goals (67.4), and second in shots (493). Other impressive stats from the capital ...
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Lille, Brest contest Champions League spot as French season ends

Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Fonseca, coach of Lille OSC, and players of Lille celebrate following victory during the Ligue 1 match between Lille OSC and Olympique Marseille at Stade Pierre-Mauroy on May 20, 2023 in Lille, France.Paris Saint-Germain were confirmed as champions for a record-extending 12th time late last month with three games to spare.Monaco have secured second spot, thereby confirming a return to the Champions League for the first time since 2018/19.Behind them it is between Lille and Brest to see who takes the third automatic berth in Europe's elite club competition and who has to settle for fourth place.The expansion of the Champions League from 32 teams to 36 from next season -- clubs will go into one single pool and will each play eight games against different opponents r...
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