Algerian international centre-back Djamel Benlamri joined Olympique Lyonnais at the end of the summer 2020 transfer window as a free agent, having bought out the final nine months of his contract with Al-Shabab in Saudi Arabia. He was recruited primarily to provide cover for first choice central defensive partnership Jason Denayer and Marcelo, after Joachim […]
Mattia De Sciglio is an experienced Italian international fullback who joined Olympique Lyonnais on loan from Juventus for the 2020-21 season. He made his Lyon debut as a 73rd minute substitute in the 3-2 away win at Strasbourg on the 18th of October 2020. He was brought in just before the summer transfer window closed […]
Lucas Paqueta made his debut for Lyon in a 3-2 win away at Strasbourg on the 18th of October 2020, playing alongside compatriot Thiago Mendes and Housseam Aouar in central midfield. At €20 million, he was the club’s marquee signing of the preceding transfer window, making the move across the Alps from Milan just a […]
Bruno Guimarães, who joined Lyon in the January 2020 transfer window from Athletico Paranaense, is one of the most promising Brazilian midfielders of his generation. It cost Lyon just over €22 million to capture the signature of the twenty-two year old, and it’s already beginning to look like a bargain. Bruno Guimarães Rodriguez Moura, to […]
Olympique Lyonnais paid €8 million to bring Brazilian midfielder Jean Lucas to France in 2019, negotiating the deal either side of his twenty-first birthday. He left his homeland as one of the hottest prospects in his generation, but had an underwhelming first season in Lyon. He was originally signed for Lyon by erstwhile manager Sylvinho, […]
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 […]
