Ligue 1 side Lorient have contacted Newcastle United about the availability of Yoan Gouffran and Emmanuel Rivière, according to L’Équipe.
Les Merlus are considering making loan offers for the pair, according to the report.
Hervé Bazile (Caen) and Adrien Regattin (free transfer) are also targets for FCL.
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According to L’Équipe, Newcastle United are still yet to receive a single offer since EURO 2016 for French international Moussa Sissoko.
A source close to the situation told the newspaper when asked about Moussa Sissoko’s situation specifically relating to Inter Milan:
“Things are advancing well. We should expect offers to come in rapidly now.”
The report claims that Newcastle can expect to receive a €35m offer from Inter Milan imminently.
However, the newspaper also suggests that Tottenham Hotspur and Everton remain in the mix for the player and reiterate that Sissoko’s primary desire is to remain in the Premier League and play Champions League football.
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Speaking in an interview with Le Parisien, Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani discussed his future with PSG.
You have been at PSG for four years now. Is that a sign you might be here forever?
I do not know if it is a sign. I did not leave former clubs because they did not want me any longer but because each time was take my career to the next level. Today, I am here, in one of the best teams in the world, and that fills me with joy.
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In football, things have to be clear. In previous years, I have maybe sometimes expressed my desire to play in my true position, but I have always respected the decision of the manager. It was not that I did not want to stay at PSG. But in my position, there was a great player, Ibra. I liked PSG but I wanted to continue my career as a striker. At the end of last season, I had a meeting with the board where they told me I would be playing as a striker, and, for that moment on, I was happy. That is clear.
Montpellier have announced the signing of 27 year old central defender Cédric Mongongu on a one year deal until the end of the 2016/17 campaign.
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Mongongu has previous Ligue 1 experience with Evian TG and has signed for MHSC following a successful trial period.
According to RTL, Marseille have secured their first signing under the Frank McCourt era by completing a deal to bring in former Lille and AS Roma boss Rudi Garcia as the club’s new manager on a 2.5 year deal.
Garcia is still technically under contract with the Serie A side, despite being sacked last season.
There is also a report coming from Italian journalist Gianluca di Marzio this morning that suggests that Garcia is currently in talks with AS Roma of a mutual termination agreement of the final months of his contract with them.
Garcia to OM, more than just an option now: a reality.
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It had been a tough start to the season for Franck Passi. The former Marseille manager was appointed head coach towards the end of last season after the disastrous reign of Michel was brought to a crashing halt by the club. Passi was only appointed as an interim boss, someone to ease the on-field problems whilst Marseille found a new owner and a new manager to replace Michel.
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For Passi, this meant 15 games in charge and exactly 6 months in charge of the first team. All credit must go to Passi, who made 61 Ligue 1 appearances for L’OM over a two-year spell as a player, as he took a job that was not exactly sought after by the elite in football management. However, Passi showed incredible loyalty to Marseille by taking charge during such a hectic period for the club.
With the ownership of the club changing hands, Passi never felt like he would stick around long and as time has shown with Rudi Garcia taking over, Frank McCourt didn’t think Passi was the right man for the job. Despite this feeling that inevitably he would be out of the door, Passi did his job to the best he could, and gained the respect of fans for guiding the club through a massive transitional period in their history.
The job was extremely tough for Passi from the moment he sat in the managerial hot seat, taking charge of an underperforming squad who were preparing themselves for the eventual departures of stars such as Michy Batshuayi, Nicolas N’Koulou, George-Kevin N’Koudou and club captain Steve Mandanda.
Passi had his best assets stripped from him, but he got his head down and kept on trying to give the Marseille fans a team they could be proud of cheering on. Yes, he had to rebuild a broken squad on what was essentially a shoestring budget but some signings like that of Bafetembi Gomis on loan from Premier League club Swansea City have proved to be good deals, with Gomis scoring 6 goals in 10 Ligue matches this campaign.
The 50-year-old helped Florian Thauvin and Remy Cabella put in some performances that gave fans hope that maybe the pair can recapture some of the form they had in Ligue 1 before their respective moves to Newcastle United.
What Franck Passi will be remembered for is his loyalty to Marseille, and how he rejected the chance to join Marcelo Bielsa at Lazio. Whilst the appointment of Bielsa to Lazio never materialized, the simple fact that Passi was prepared to turn down the chance to work with his former boss at a club that had potential to challenge for European places in Serie A speaks volumes of how passionate Passi was about Marseille and being the boss at the club.
Now, some people may look at Passi and at Marseille during this time period and look at the stats alone, seeing that they finished 13th, way off the pace of the rest of the huge clubs in France, but bear in mind what state Michel left the club in. When the Spaniard was sacked, Marseille were floating around the relegation zone in 15th and whilst fans say a team is “too good to go down” Marseille were really in the thick of a potential scrap to keep themselves in Ligue 1.
Unspectacularly, Passi steadied the waters and successfully guided OM away from any danger, but it is safe to say that he had inherited a job and a squad that nobody wanted.
With many of the key players leaving it would have been easy for Passi to walk away and let someone else deal with the mess. But he showed his loyalty and stayed on, and quite frankly took the impossible job. His job was to tide things over until McCourt took over and to create a competitive squad formed almost exclusively from loan deals.
Personally, I feel that Passi deserves credit for taking what, from the outside looking in, was almost the impossible job. He took over a sinking ship, oversaw a mass exodus of stars and rebuilt Marseille to a reasonably decent team.
He had the chance to join what looked like an easier job as Bielsa’s assistant at Lazio, but turned it down.
His loyalty to such a disastrous cause should be celebrated, and credit where it’s due to Mr. Passi.
T.S.
It was not supposed to be like this. Many had already anointed Mouez Hassen, with numerous youth international caps for France, as the future between the sticks at OGC Nice. But little would he know, there was another with a claim to throne.
Up stepped Yoan Cardinale, a year his senior, to fill Hassen’s place he did so with aplomb. Since the moment that that occurred last season, the 22-year-old Cardinale has been unmoveable and has slowly increased his reputation not just at club level but has also even entered onto Didier Deschamps’ radar as well.
Hassen was made the starting goalkeeper back at the start of 2015 before an injury saw Cardinale finally get his chance in the side. Cardinale did a sturdy enough job but the younger shot-stopper would regain his place after recovering.
However, Hassen’s renewed stint would not last long as he was sent off against Toulouse in a league encounter after just 28 minutes. Cardinale did not need a third invitation to wrestle that spot from Hassen permanently. Other than an owing to an injury before a match against Reims, Cardinale has not missed a game for the club in the league since.
After settling and establishing himself last season in a stand-out campaign, he has taken his game to the next level. Not content with just stagnating, he is growing alongside a defence that is only currently bested by Paris Saint-Germain in terms of goals conceded and Cardinale has been at the heart of that success.
Of the current crop of players, Cardinale told Nice-Matin:
“We knew we had a good team, but we would not have believed we would go twelve games unbeaten, a leading position in November, it’s beautiful. We are proud of what we have done.”
However, what speaks volumes of his attitude is his reaction to their first loss of the season to Caen:
“Either we win or we learn.”
Cardinale has personified that ideal so far in his short career and he will hope his teammates can follow suit.
The first name that springs to mind when watching Cardinale is former French World Cup winner Fabien Barthez. Both have a smaller frame for a goalkeeper, with the Nice stopper a few centre metres smaller than the former Manchester United man, and both have similar attributes.
Cardinale shows great reflexes when it comes to stopping shots, especially from close range. His reactions are good and his deceptive athleticism allows him to spring right back up to deny second opportunities, even if they are rare due to his tendency to push the ball out of danger with his initial stop.
There is a perfect example of this in the Europa League game against Schalke, where he is forced into a triple save. The first is low and hard at his near post, the second comes quickly across him and the third is almost a rebound from the first save but he does superbly to make sure he has his body in the way to stop everything he can.
Another Barthez-esque quality is the speed that he showcases when he comes off his line for one-on-one situations. He has the ability to cut the angle down quickly and he stays on his feet for as long as possible to make it more difficult for the attacker, in what is becoming a rarer trait in modern goalkeepers.
He is good at claiming crosses and doesn’t go in with his fists unless absolutely necessary. He commands his box well and is comfortable with the ball at his feet, an essential tool for any goalkeeper looking to make it to the next level.
The only worry for Cardinale is interestingly similar to Monsieur Barthez: whether his size might limit him from reaching the very pinnacle of European football. If he can keep improving, tightening his game, then he can achieve whatever he wants, but many will still fear that his size may hold him back from getting to the top of the game.
A great season with an up-and-coming team should alert anyone to his abilities but with so many interesting goalkeepers not just in Ligue 1 but in European football right now, it is hard to stand out from the crowd. There’s no doubting his talents and if he can keep it up for the rest of this season, he has to be under consideration for the national side.
If he is not, then he could simply be another talented goalkeeper rooted to one level. While that would be a strange plus for Nice, it could deny Cardinale a chance of really testing his abilities to the maximum. However, if he can help his current club succeed, as Les Aiglons continue to establish themselves as title race candidates, he might not need to.
N.S.
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Lille’s soon-to-be Sporting Director Luis Campos is already making moves for the January window.
He is said to have approached Sporting Lisbon over the possible loan signing of Matheus Pereira, according to our colleagues at Foot Mercato.
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The 20 year old can play as a forward or as a right-winger and Campos already tried to sign him when he was at AS Monaco.
Pereira is under contract until 2020 and has a €60m release clause.
Last night a report was produced by our colleagues at RMC, claiming that AS Roma had proposed a swap deal with Les Parisiens including Jesé and Antonio Rüdiger.
The representatives of the German international moved to deny this speculation when contacted by our colleagues at Canal Supporters today:
“We deny this speculation. The player feels very good at his current club at the moment and there is no transfer played now.”
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Ligue 2 side RC Lens defender Loïck Landre is set to join Serie A outfit Genoa at the end of the season, according to our colleagues at Foot Mercato.
Landre’s current deal with the French second division outfit finishes at the end of the season and he is now free to negotiate a pre-contract with whomever he wants.
Italian side Genoa are very interested in the player and are negotiating a four year contract with Landre for him to join for free in summer. The Serie A club would like the player this month and are negotiating with Lens to see if they will let him go. If they do, then Landre will sign a 4.5 year deal instead.
Genoa in pole position, but nothing is agreed to yet.
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