Adryelson is a Brazilian centre-back who signed for Olympique Lyonnais from Botafogo for €3.58m in the January 2024 transfer window, aged twenty-five. He’s the second player to make the move from Botafogo to Lyon since the clubs have both been part of American businessman John Textor’s multi-club ownership project. He’ll hope to make a bigger […]
Tag: Defender
Mamadou Sarr – Player Profile
Mamadou Sarr is a central defender who made his debut for the Lyon first team in their final home match of the 2022-23 season. He came off the bench to replace Maxence Caqueret in the 83rd minute of a 3-0 win against Stade de Reims. Sarr is a product of Lyon’s famed youth academy. He […]
Duje Caleta-Car – Player Profile
Duje Ćaleta-Car joined Lyon from Southampton on a season-long loan in August 2023 following the English club’s relegation from the Premier League. Lyon paid a loan fee of €1.54 million to secure the Croatian international centre-back’s services for the year. Lyon were desperately in need of reinforcements in that department following the sale of Castello […]
Jake O’Brien – Player Profile
Born in Cork in 2001, Jake O’Brien is a centre-back who represents the Republic of Ireland national team at Under-21 level and currently plies his trade at Olympique Lyonnais in Ligue 1 in France. He is notable for being one of the first players to have his career trajectory significantly shaped by American businessman John […]
Dejan Lovren – Player Profile
Croatian centre-back Dejan Lovren is one of four players in the current Lyon squad to have recently returned to the club for a second spell. (The other three being Alexandre Lacazette, Corentin Tolisso and Rémy Riou). Lovren re-joined Lyon in January 2023 for a fee of €2 million from Zenit St Petersburg, having previously worn the […]
Saël Kumbedi – Player Profile
When Lyon signed the seventeen year old prospect Saël Kumbedi from Le Havre for €1 million in the summer of 2022, he was very much seen as one for the future. At the time, he only had 219 minutes of first team action in Ligue 2 to his name. However, the young right-back made such […]
Clinton Mata – Player Profile
Olympique Lyonnais signed the thirty-year-old Angolan defender Clinton Mata from Club Brugge for €5 million in the summer of 2023. It was a first move abroad for the right-back, who had been born and raised in Belgium and had spent the entirety of his career thus far playing in the Belgian league system. Mata will […]
Nicolás Tagliafico – Player Profile
In December 2022, Nicolás Tagliafico became only the second Olympique Lyonnais player to win the FIFA World Cup whilst at the club, following in the footsteps of Nabil Fekir in 2018. The Argentina left-back was an integral part of his country’s World Cup winning campaign in Qatar, featuring in all but one of their matches, […]
Croatian international Duje Caleta-Car signs for Lyon
Olympique Lyonnais have completed the signing of Croatian international defender Duje Caleta-Car on a season-long loan for a fee of €1.54 million. The centre-back joins from Southampton as they look to reduce their wage bill following their relegation from the English Premier League at the end of last season. The twenty-six year old links up […]
Castello Lukeba
Castello Lukeba was the revelation of the 2021-22 season for Olympique Lyonnais. His sudden emergence from the academy was a rare bright spot in an otherwise underwhelming campaign for the club. He began the season as an unknown eighteen year old without a single first team appearance to his name, but impressed in pre-season friendlies […]