Paul Akouokou, who simply bears the moniker ‘Paul’ on the back of his Lyon shirt, is a defensive midfielder who joined the club from Real Betis for a fee of €3 million in September 2023. The twenty-six year old is an Ivory Coast international with four caps to his name and has previously played in […]
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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 […]
Diego Moreira – Player Profile
Diego Moreira, or, to give him his full name, Diego Manuel Jadon da Silva Moreira, is a winger who primarily operates down the left flank. He is currently on a season-long loan at Olympique Lyonnais from his parent club, Chelsea. Despite his tender years (he only turned nineteen in August), he has already been on […]
Mahamadou Diawara – Player Profile
Mahamadou Diawara is a French midfielder of Malian descent who primarily plays a roving ‘box-to-box’ role. He signed for Lyon as a free agent in June 2023 having spent the previous five years on the books of Paris Saint-Germain. The eighteen-year-old was disappointed to only be offered a trainee contract by the Parisian club last […]
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 […]
Skelly Alvero – Player Profile
Central midfielder Skelly Alvero joined Olympique Lyonnais from Sochaux for €4 million in the summer transfer window of 2023. Aged just twenty-one, and with only one full season of first team experience in Ligue 2 behind him, Alvero jumped at the chance to step up a division and sign a five year contract with Lyon. […]
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 […]
Mama Baldé – Player Profile
Mama Samba Baldé was born in Bissau, the capital of the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, but he moved to Portugal aged six and played his junior football in the youth teams of Sintrense, from the historic town of Sintra, not far from Lisbon. He was picked up by Sporting Clube in […]