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RMC report that previously Newcastle United target and Lyon attacker Myziane Maolida is in advanced negotiations to sign for OGC Nice.
Although L’Équipe suggested that it would be a loan, it appears that Les Aiglons are pushing for a permanent deal.
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Newly appointed England head coach Steve Borthwick insists that every game matters, adding that he will not prioritise the World Cup over the upcoming Six Nations.
Borthwick was announced as Eddie Jones’ successor on Monday, and his first game in charge will be the Calcutta Cup match against Scotland on 4 February.
Borthwick left Premiership champions Leicester Tigers to sign a five-year deal with the Rugby Football Union, effectively taking him through to the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
The 43-year-old has little time to settle in, with England’s Six Nations campaign fast approaching and the World Cup kicking off next September.
However, he has revealed that he will not use the Six Nations to experiment. His predecessor was heavily criticised for focusing too much on the tournament in France, and Borthwick is adamant that every game matters.
“Every game matters. Every single game you play for England matters. The one that’s in my mind is at the start of that Six Nations,” he said.
“We will be using every minute we have to prepare this team as well as we can for the first game of that Six Nations in 47 days’ time. Then when we’ve played that game, we’ll focus on the next one, then the one after that and the one after that. We want to just keep getting better.
“We know the World Cup is not far away, but the focus is on the start of the Six Nations.”
England managed five wins from 12 Tests in 2022, their worst year since 2008, which led to Jones’ sacking. Borthwick knows the players will be hurting but is confident they will get back on track with the new boss zoning in on the improvement needed in the set-pieces.
“To win Tier One Tests, you’ve got to have a quality set-piece and that’s certainly on the priority list,” he said.
“If you look at the Autumn Series, I don’t think England are ranked in the top three in any one particular facet of the game, so there are plenty of things to work on and get right.
“When I was a player, when the team was coached by Clive Woodward, in every single meeting there were posters on the wall – I was 20 to 21 – and the poster that I always referred to was one that said ‘brilliant basics’. You have to be brilliant at the basics.
“Clearly, there are a large number of England players at Leicester, and I have been in touch with players that I have known for a long, long time, and I know how much they are hurting because they care, they really, really care, they want to do well.”
Borthwick worked as Jones’ assistant coach in Japan and England before leaving the Red Rose set up in 2020 to head up Leicester.
With the relationship built between the pair over the years, the new boss confirmed that he had spoken with his predecessor during the fortnight between Jones’ dismissal and Borthwick’s arrival but added that he would bring his own approach to the role.
“I’ll coach this team my way,” said former Bath and Saracens lock Borthwick, who won 57 caps for England.
“I promise you I’ll lead in a real authentic way. I love winning.
“The other thing I really love about coaching and the way I lead is I really like helping people; I really care for the people I coach.
“The players I’ve coached at Leicester in the last two years I really care about. I take a huge amount of joy in their happiness.
“If I can help people experience highs like that, it brings me a lot of joy.”
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Le Parisien report that French free agent and attacking midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa will join a new club this week.
HBA continues to take legal action against PSG, who are refusing to pay his morality clause bonus, under the auspices of the fact that the former Nice man missed the trip to Qatar in December 2017.
Ben Arfa insists that he did not turn up because of a virus, which medical certificates validate. PSG argue that the documents are incomplete and insufficient and suspect that HBA made up this illness so as to not have to visit the country where the owners of the club live.
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The amount in question, €25k, is symbolic, but Ben Arfa wants to make a point.
With that case ongoing, Ben Arfa is intent on finding a new club. He currently has 4 offers on the table: from Rennes & Nice in France and Benfica and Sporting Portugal in Portugal.
Benfica are playing the 2nd leg of their Champions’ League qualified against PAOK FC on Wednesday, having drawn 1-1 in the home encounter, and Ben Arfa wants to wait to see the outcome of that before making a definitive decision.
Ben Arfa’s history with Nice is well-known, and Les Aiglons remain in pole position to land the 31-year-old, despite a strong summer-long charm offensive led by President Olivier Letang and manager Sabri Lamouchi for Rennes.
20-year-old left-back Romain Perraud has today joined side Paris FC after an agreement was found between the Ligue 2 side and his parent club, OGC Nice. Nice has been Perraud’s home since 2014 when the Frenchman joined Les Aiglons’ academy as a 16-year-old.
Perraud saw limited game time at the Allianz Riviera last season, appearing in just three matches, one in Ligue 1 and two in the Europa League. While the left-back may be struggling to break into the first team, he has gained ample experience with the reserve squad in the lower levels of French football. Since making his debut for Nice II in 2015 Perraud has gone on to make 65 appearances, scoring nine goals.
Not only a bright prospect for Nice, but for his country as well, Perraud has been capped by four different youth levels for the French national team. Most recently the 20-year-old became a mainstay in France’s U19 and later U20 groups, making nine appearances for the former and eight for the latter.
Moving on loan to Paris will give Perraud an opportunity to prove himself and potentially return to Le Gym a much better player. The left-back will wear #18 for his new club.
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Israeli outfit Maccabi Petah-Tikva have spent a frustrating day negotiating through an intermediary over the possible signing of PSG winger Jean-Christophe Bahebeck, according to RMC.
The 25-year-old had agreed with PSG to a provisional mutual termination agreement, but the deal with Israeli side looks like it might not happen, as his wage demands are viewed as excessive.
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France Football are reporting that Ligue 1 side Lyon have in recent hours re-entered into contact with Brazilian giants Fluminense for attacker Pedro.
The 21-year-old is valued at around €20m, with Bordeaux having come close previously to signing the player earlier this summer.
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Speaking in a recent press conference, PSG boss Thomas Tuchel was asked about whether the so-called low quality of Ligue 1 has an adverse effect on his team’s preparation for the Champions’ League.
“No, no, no. We have our own limits. The bar is very high. That is our challenge. It is not easy to win. Ligue 1 is not a problem for us. I am not of this opinion and I have already said that several times. If you think that it is too easy, it is maybe our team that makes things easy. It is the quality of each player in our team. This is not an easy situation at the beginning of the season, following a not easy pre-season. That is why it is great that we have started well.”
“We have been also able to see the difficulties we have had in certain matches. We have this new challenge vs. Nice and then we will be ready for the Champions’ League. My impression is that this is a very physical league. In each team, there are very quick attackers, with a lot of speed and stamina. As a result, it is very difficult to control opposition attacks. We like to have the ball, and that is a challenge. It is very balanced. There are teams like Monaco, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse and Nice who are at a high level.”
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Paris Saint-Germain don’t handle change well. In nearly eight years of QSI rule, PSG have rarely deviated from linear and now engrained ideas; throwing vast sums at celebrity forwards and pandering to their whims, naively persisting with one dimensional possession-based football and indulging in rampant short-termism. Although this philosophy rapidly brought swathes of domestic trophies, in retrospect it also saw the team plateau just as quickly. Paris may be at last starting to change under Thomas Tuchel but, as this week underlined, their project finds itself in a state of flux. For the club to get the success it craves, it’s becoming clear that PSG will have to find a way to break the habit and finally accept that uncertainty.
At first glance, the last few days seemed to encapsulate the now almost clichéd PSG narrative, as the club were unable to divert from an underwhelming European display by effortlessly dispensing with a key Ligue 1 rival. Julian Draxler’s injury time tap-in sealed a 2-0 Le Classique win at Marseille and equalled both the capital club’s best start to a Ligue 1 campaign and Tottenham’s record start to a ‘Big 5’ league season. Wednesday’s 2-2 draw at home to Napoli nevertheless remained the focus.
Despite Angel Di Maria’s curling injury-time equaliser at the Parc des Princes, the team’s performance mirrored similar recent European struggles in failing to compete with an unspectacular if effective Real Madrid in March, drawing with Arsenal and Ludogorets to finish their group second the year before and previous limp exits to Barcelona and Manchester City. Paris were laboured and uninspiring, but individual quality went some way to recusing the situation, as it so nearly did in the 3-2 loss at Anfield last month.
Although league results have been superb, this disjointedness and lack of cohesion has characterised Thomas Tuchel’s team throughout the campaign. With Di Maria at peak individual form, squeezing him between Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Edinson Cavani has proven problematic. The Argentine has been used on both flanks in a 4-2-3-1, which can leave the midfield pair exposed, in central midfield in a 4-3-3, which only serves to keep Neymar, Mbappè and Di Maria out of what Tuchel sees as their best positions while exposing the flanks, and even at wing-back in a 3-5-2, an experiment abandoned at half-time against Angers in August.
Unsurprisingly the 4-3-3 used almost exclusively by previous coaches Unai Emery, Laurent Blanc and Carlo Ancelotti has seemed the most natural fit but, given the clear need to evolve, relying on those engrained processes which have only got the club so far would be counterproductive.
Nevertheless, PSG’s win in Le Classique does represent progress under Tuchel. A burgeoning versatility has bred a glacial move towards three central defenders as well as both a more aggressive press on occasion and, as was seen at the Vélodrome this weekend, an ability to remain compact and close out games. Nevertheless these experiments were yet to yield much meaningful success until the overtly professional win on Sunday night.
With the lack of consistent competition at the summit of Ligue 1, Paris have struggled to hone their defensive rigour and game management, as was evident against Liverpool in September. PSG’s plan for the Vélodrome however, in an oppressive atmosphere against a competitive side, was to hold their shape, remain compact and take their chances when they came. Unusually for Paris, it was the quintessential conservative away performance, both goals coming from counters in an otherwise slow and uneventful meeting, rather than overwhelming their opposition through sheer weight of quality players; something manifestly not possible in the Champions’ League later rounds.
While it’s likely PSG would have triumphed at least as comfortably playing their usual style, the willingness to dabble in footballing pragmatism, and cultivating an ability to do so against tougher Ligue 1 opposition, marks a small but meaningful step away from their usual short-sighted, haughty over-confidence.
Tuchel has made quiet but definite progress in other areas too. Mbappé, scorer of the first goal, and Adrien Rabiot were left on the bench as punishment for arriving late to a team meeting. A decisive and surprisingly rare move from a PSG coach against the player power that has conditioned the club since Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s arrival in 2012. Meanwhile Tuchel’s move towards three at the back, a system used effectively here, is slowly taking hold and long neglected academy products are garnering meaningful game time under the German; 19-year-old French defender Stanley Nsoki impressing from the start at the Vélodrome.
Despite the progress being made, more difficult battles lie ahead. QSI’s transfer policy remains horribly lopsided with central midfield and defensive areas long overlooked for serious investment, moving away from Edinson Cavani, now 31, as a focal point may prove tricky while Paris still rely too heavily on their stars to save them, Mbappé’s entrance on Sunday being largely responsible for their second-half gear change.
More pivotal however, will be how QSI and club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi handle these growing pains. Undoing years of bad habits is, as Tuchel seems to acknowledge, a slow process and with the team now faced with a drop into the Europa League, which may prove ultimately positive for the club in gaining valuable experience and perhaps a European trophy, the urge to react may be difficult to ignore for the club hierarchy given their obsession with the Champions’ League.
Unlike his predecessors, Thomas Tuchel is making subtle, yet tangible progress at PSG. To benefit in the long term all the club hierarchy have to do is follow suit and evolve but, unfortunately for all concerned, the breaking of that particular habit won’t be down to their German coach.
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1 | Lyon have shaken off their heavy defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in admirable fashion, at least domestically, with comfortable wins over Angers and Nîmes seeing the Rhône club continue their push for the top three. Not all is well at the Parc OL, however; Memphis Depay, having come off the bench to notch his second goal in as many matches, was incensed over not having started. “I am fed up with this situation. Last year, I thought I had a great season. Great players play all matches; this is the fourth time I have found myself on the bench… I deserve better. A player like me deserves more respect.” Bruno Génésio has his faults, but picking players on merit has always been one of his strengths, and it’s easy to see the manager’s logic in keeping the Dutchman in reserve given his frequent lack of effort. If Depay can be the player that he has been for his country of late, and that he had been for Lyon down the stretch last season, he is beyond doubt the talent which he proclaims himself to be. If not, however, he is best served by letting his play speak for itself.
2 | Montpellier’s 3-0 win over Toulouse ran their record in their last four matches to three wins and a draw, with nine goals scored and just three conceded. The club are now comfortably third, and their summer signings have been at the heart of it, with Damien Le Tallec’s presence in midfield offering more freedom to Ellyes Skhiri and Florent Mollet’s creativity fueling the physical dynamism of Andy Delort and Gaëtan Laborde. All four have impressed at various points in their careers, but their work-rates and talents have arguably never been as well-used as they are currently under Michel Der Zakarian, and Montpellier (whisper it) now look an unlikely challenger for the Champions’ League.
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Sky Italia and Paris United report that French midfielder Adrien Rabiot has reached an agreement with Barcelona over salary terms ahead of a free transfer move next summer.
The player’s agent and mother Véronique concluded an agreement with Barcelona Sporting Director Éric Abidal today, but had a €10m salary understanding weeks ago. She used this week to attempt to bring that salary up to €15m, but the Catalan club refused, granting a 5-year contract worth €50m in total, plus a €10m signing bonus.
That Catalan giants have now entered into negotiations with PSG about potentially signing Rabiot this month, with the French international currently refusing to participate in the club’s tour of Doha to take place in the middle of January.
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Strasbourg’s players and manager proved unsympathetic towards Neymar’s latest injury troubles speaking to the press last night following their 2-0 defeat to PSG in the Coupe de France.
Manager Thierry Laurey: “If Neymar does that against Manchester United, expect him to be done in the same way. Do not be surprised.”
Midfielder Anthony Gonçalves: “Neymar, it is his style but when you want to play like that, you cannot complain when you receive knocks from behind… He can enjoy himself but he can’t whine after.”
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