Recent content by Inara

No way Lyon will part for either Benzema or Ben Arfa for anything below 20m. Lyon would be stupid to sell off the best players their academy have ever produced - and highly talented players at that - for anything less. Anyway, by the time Lyon do sell them, their prices will have gone up even...

He won't leave Lyon at least for another two years, possibly three. He's only 19, and he would be foolish to go to a club where he'll be the fourth or fifth striker, when he can be a starter for the best team in France, get call ups to the NT, and play in the Champions League every year. The...

Actually 6...four in the league and two in Europe. He probably would have scored more if he hadn't been played so defensively at Lyon.

As a Lyon fan, I'm happy to see that people are excited by Tiago's arrival at Juventus. He's been fantastic for us and I'm truly sorry to see him go, but with a player of that caliber, you can't ask him to stay in Ligue 1 forever. He's a technically gifted player, but you all know that...

Lyon offered 20 million last summer. Trez's value has been dropping since last year. The longer he hangs around, the harder it will be to sell him off. He is no longer worth 20 million on his current contract, and if Juventus can get 15 million out of him, they should do it. If they wait to...

Fred was out for about a total of five months (first he hurt his hamstring in October, and then he hurt his foot in April). But he still scored 14 goals and is Lyon's highest goalscorer (he scores one goal every 96 minutes according to LFP stats :smoke: ). If only he was a bit more mature...

I think DD's resignation took Aulas by surprise because two days before, he said that he wanted to stay at Juventus. So Lyon went ahead after Houllier told Aulas he wanted to resign (during the CL final), and the club and arranged things with Sochaux, with Perrin resigning and his old club...

Gerard Houllier has supposedly resigned from Lyon, leaving the position wide open. There are increasing rumors that Aulas has already made a deal with Deschamps in light of Houllier's planned departure.

Juninho hasn't been happy at Lyon recently and has yet to sign a contract extension. He wants to play for another two years (he's only 32 and still in top form) but said it depends if Lyon get better players next year or not. Plus he doesn't like Houllier. Too bad he isn't younger - he's...

I think Lyon will let him go pretty cheaply. Not all the players they sell are expensive - just their best ones. They've sold off Pedretti, Jeremy Clement, Bryan Bergounoux, etc., at pretty low prices. Lyon bought Diarra at around 7-8 million Euros but will probably accept a loss and sell him...

Easier to sign? :disagree: Yeah right. As if Aulas will ever make anything easy. Lyon puts a special tax on all their players, and since they don't need to sell, nor do they need the money, Aulas will slap a high price on Malouda and be annoying about it. It won't be like Barca getting Abidal...

Tiago left because Michael Essien was coming in, and Mourinho couldn't guarantee a starting position. Since it was a World Cup year, Tiago went in the other direction to Lyon where he would be a starter. It turned out to be the best possible decision because it's in Lyon where he really shined.

Lyon won despite Houllier. It's a wonder they didn't end up like PSG and Nantes.

Despite their bad form and CL exit, I don't think you can call Lyon a mediocre team. They are one of the better teams in Europe, certainly in the top ten. They don't have star players, but that means they don't have to deal with star egos. Instead, they have incredible chemistry (except for the...

Here's the latest on the Trezeguet rumors. Lione, 17 milioni per Trezeguet - in Italian AND here: Lyon oferece a Juventus 17 milhões de euros por Trezeguet - in Portuguese I'm not sure how seriously to take it. I'd be surprised if they were true. The last thing Lyon needs is another...