Argentina international Thiago Almada is the latest player to arrive at Olympique Lyonnais via their association with Brazilian club Botafogo under the shared ownership of John Textor’s Eagle Football Holdings. The twenty-three year old attacking midfielder or winger moved to Lyon during the January 2025 transfer window. He initially joined on loan as Lyon were […]
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Rémy Descamps – Player Profile
Rémy Descamps is a French goalkeeper who joined Lyon in August 2024 to act as a backup for Lucas Perri. It’s a role to which the twenty-eight year old has become accustomed in recent years, having spent the majority of the previous three seasons sitting on the bench for Nantes. Perri has been ever present […]
Tanner Tessmann – Player Profile
Tanner Tessmann is a tall and imposing defensive midfielder who made a name for himself with Venezia in Italy before Olympique Lyonnais signed him for €6 million in August 2024. He is a USA international, with six caps to his name, at the time of writing, having made his debut in 2021. Tessmann, or Francis […]
Abner Vinícius – Player Profile
Abner Vinícius is a Brazilian left-back who joined Olympique Lyonnais from Real Betis in July 2024. He signed on a five year contract and cost the French club €8 million, with Betis entitled to twenty per cent of the fee if Lyon ever sell him on. To give him his full name, Abner Vinícius da […]
Georges Mikautadze – Player Profile
When Georges Mikautadze signed for Olympique Lyonnais in the summer of 2024, the move represented an emotional homecoming for the twenty-three year old. It’s a little known fact that the Georgia international striker was actually born and raised in Lyon and had spent several years at the club’s academy before moving away to pursue his […]
Moussa Niakhaté – Player Profile
Moussa Niakhaté is a tall and imposing left-footed centre-back who signed for Lyon from Nottingham Forest for €31.9 million in July 2024. He was ostensibly brough in to replace Jake O’Brien, who was sold to Everton at around the same time. Niakhaté was born into a family of Senegalese origin living near Lille in the […]
Saïd Benrahma – Player Profile
Saïd Benrahma initially joined Lyon on loan from West Ham United in February 2024, but the move was made permanent the following summer after the winger impressed with three goals and four assists in his fifteen appearances during the second half of the season. The transfer fee was said to be something in the region […]
Orel Mangala – Player Profile
Orel Mangala is a Belgian international midfielder who joined Lyon from Nottingham Forest in the January transfer window of 2024. The move was initially a loan, but the French club have an option to make it permanent when the deal expires at the end of June 2024. It remains to be seen whether or not […]
Nemanja Matić – Player Profile
Serbian central midfielder Nemanja Matić signed for Olympique Lyonnais from Ligue 1 rivals Rennes for €2.6 million in the January 2024 transfer window. The thirty-five year old becomes the oldest player in the current Lyon squad and has joined on a two-and-a-half-year contract, taking him through to summer 2026. Matić had only spent half a […]
Lucas Perri – Player Profile
Lucas Estella Perri is a Brazilian goalkeeper who signed for Olympique Lyonnais for €3.25 million from Botafogo in the January 2024 transfer window. Having recently turned twenty-six, he arrived in Lyon to initially serve as a back-up for long-term custodian Anthony Lopes, replacing erstwhile reserve goalkeeper Rémy Riou, who moved on to Paris FC. Born […]