Pavel Šulc has just enjoyed the season of his life. Lyon’s new €7.5 million signing from Viktoria Plzeň, won the prestigious Czech Golden Ball (Zlatý míč České republiky), becoming the first Czech based player to do so for ten years. The award, which is given to the best Czech player of the season, was voted […]
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Khalis Merah – Player Profile
Khalis Merah is a graduate from the esteemed Olympique Lyonnais academy. Following in the footsteps of numerous stars to have emerged from their ranks over the years, he hopes to be the latest ‘Gone‘ to make a name for himself. The midfielder made his first team debut in the opening game of the 2025-26 season […]
Tyler Morton – Player Profile
Tyler Morton is a defensive central midfielder who was born and raised on Merseyside. He grew up supporting local giants Liverpool and joined their academy in 2009 at just seven years old. Liverpool scouts spotted him playing for the Greenleas junior team in his home town of Wallasey and he jumped at the chance to […]
Ander Herrera – Player Profile
Full Name: Ander Herrera AgüeraDate of Birth: 11/08/1989Place of Birth: BilbaoNationality: ESPPosition: Central MidfielderClubs: Real Zaragoza, Athletic Club, Manchester United, Paris Saint-Germain, Athletic Club, Boca Juniors Ander Herrera is a Basque central midfielder who spent the bulk of his career playing for Athletic Club in Spain and Manchester United in England. He began his career with Real Zaragoza and […]
Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez – Player Profile
Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez is a Venezuelan born striker who plays for Olympique Lyonnais in France. He currently represents England in youth international football, having lived in Southampton from the age of ten until he moved to Lyon aged sixteen. He is also eligible to represent both Venezuela and Portugal and has been involved with both […]
Rafael Pereira da Silva – Player Profile
Rafael Pereira da Silva is one half of a pair of Brazilian twins who joined Manchester United aged just seventeen in January 2008. He and his twin brother Fabio had been on the books of Rio de Janeiro based club Fluminense since they were eleven years old, but had yet to represent the first team. […]
Wilfried Zaha – Player Profile
Of the five players to have represented both Manchester United and Lyon, Wilfried Zaha is the one to have left by far the least impression on both clubs. He’ll go down as little more than a footnote in their history, or at most the answer to an obscure quiz question. Not that he wasn’t a […]
Anthony Martial – Player Profile
Les Ulis is a working class new town that was built not far from Paris in the late 1970’s. It has produced such luminaries as Thierry Henry and Patrice Evra, but was starting to look and feel a bit run down by the mid-1990’s. That’s when a couple of Guadeloupean origin welcomed a young boy […]
Jordan Veretout – Player Profile
French international midfielder Jordan Veretout joined Olympique Lyonnais from Marseille in September 2024. The transfer fee was reported as €4 million plus add-ons. He signed a contract tying him to the club until June 2026 and was handed the number 7 shirt. Veretout, who was thirty-one years old at the time, has six French caps […]
Warmed Omari – Player Profile
Warmed Omari is a centre-back who joined Olympique Lyonnais on a season-long loan from Rennes in August 2024. He was brought in on the final day of the transfer window to provide defensive cover in the wake of the departures of Mamadou Sarr, Sinaly Diomandé, Adryelson and Dejan Lovren, which left the squad depleted in […]