When Sinaly Diomandé was signed by Olympique Lyonnais for around half a million Euros from Guidars FC in the Ivory Coast in September 2019 it was with a view to the future. The then eighteen year old defender initially went into the reserve team squad playing in the National 2 division in order to gain […]
Melvin Bard is a left-back who graduated from the Lyon academy to make his first team debut in December 2019 aged nineteen, coming on as a half-time replacement for Rafael in a 4-0 win at Nîmes. It was to be his only appearance that season, as he spent most of the campaign with the reserves […]
Rayan Cherki is one of the most highly rated prospects ever to emerge from the Olympique Lyonnais academy. An attacking midfielder, he has been at the club since the age of seven and made his first team debut in October 2019 aged just sixteen. He has broken many age related records along the way, including […]
Gnaly Maxwel Cornet emerged as a striker from the youth ranks at FC Metz and it was in this capacity that Olympique Lyonnais signed him in January 2015, but it wasn’t until his conversion to a wing-back role under coach Rudi Garcia in 2020 that he finally found his place at the club. Prior to […]
Marcelo Antônio Guedes Filho is a tall, solid, Brazilian centre-back who arrived at Lyon in July 2017 aged 30, having spent the previous decade traversing Europe with spells at major clubs in Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey, picking up several major trophies along the way. Following in the footsteps of a long line of […]
Léo Dubois has been the first choice right-back or right-wing-back at Lyon since his arrival on a free transfer from Nantes in summer 2018. He’s an accomplished all-rounder, as good going forward as he is defensively, and has been one of the club’s most consistent performers over the past two seasons. His crossing ability from […]
Maxence Caqueret is yet another prodigious talent to come off the fertile Olympique Lyonnais production line. The French central midfielder is a local boy, who has been on the books of the club since the age of eleven and now looks set for a long career at the top level. He progressed steadily through the […]
German goalkeeper Julian Pollersbeck joined Olympique Lyonnais in September 2020 as cover for Anthony Lopes, on a four year contract for an initial fee of €250,000 from Hamburg. He takes over the reserve goalkeeper role from Anthony Racioppi, who left Lyon to join Dijon the same week. Pollersbeck took his place on the Lyon bench […]
Lyon plucked Tino Kadewere from Ligue 2 outfit Le Havre in January 2020 in a transfer deal worth up to €15 million. He was seen primarily as an exciting prospect for the future and was therefore loaned back to the Normandy based club for the remainder of the season. At twenty-four, the Zimbabwean international striker […]
Karl Toko Ekambi is a Cameroonian international striker who can operate as a conventional centre-forward or cutting in from a wide position on either side of the attack. He has a strong physical presence, poses an aerial threat inside the box and is useful at holding the ball up to bring his team mates into […]
