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The Châlons-en-Champagne Tribunal has ordered the French Football Federation (FFF) to pay Ligue 1 club Stade de Reims €4.76m, owing to a dispute that occurred in the 2015/16 campaign. In that particular season, SDR finished in 18th in Ligue 1, which was a relegation place. At the same time, SC Bastia finished 10th but were facing major financial difficulties. Reims therefore felt that they would remain in Ligue 1 and that French football’s financial watchdog…

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Ligue 1 side Lyon on Thursday announced that 19-year-old Ivorian central defender Sinaly Diomandé had penned a contract extension until June 2025. Speaking following the announcement, Diomandé had the following to say: “The coach believes in me but I know that I still need to improve a lot. I hope to one day win trophies and play in the Champions’ League but for that to occur I need to continue to work.” Sporting Director Juninho…

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Speaking in a press conference on Friday, 23-year-old right-back Pol Lirola confirmed his desire to remain at Marseille passed the end of his loan spell from Fiorentina. “Since I have been a professional, I have never experienced such a series of events… I am on loan, for the moment all I am thinking about is playing well, when the summer window arrives I hope that the club decides to keep me, because I am very…

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RMC Sport, La Provence and L’Équipe report that American owner of Ligue 1 side Marseille, Frank McCourt, will arrive in France on Monday to meet with supporter groups following his decisions to demote Jacques-Henri Eyraud and hire Jorge Sampaoli as manager, 4 weeks on from fans storming the training ground with fireworks and incurring thousands of Euros in damages through the smashing up of OM facilities. Jorge Sampaoli will arrive in Marseille on Tuesday, but per French…

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Speaking to RMC Sport, PSG manager Mauricio Pochettino reacted to the 5-2 aggregate victory over Barcelona in the Round of 16 of the Champions’ League. “We suffered in the first half. We struggled to get the first pass away. Psychologically, it was a form of test. Here I understood that we speak a lot about the past, about psychology. I think that we responded well at half-time. In the second half, we showed another side of…

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Speaking to BeIN Sports FR, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta discussed his time as a PSG player and how he feels about the Ligue 1 club. “PSG have an incredible team… The manager Mauricio Pochettino is a coach that I am close to because I played with him at PSG. He is a very very strong manager and I hope that he will win a lot of titles with PSG.” On managing PSG one day: I love…

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Speaking in an interview with Le Parisien, PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino was asked if the fact that Bayern Munich will be without Robert Lewandowski in the 1st leg of their Champions’ League quarter-final clash next week is an advantage for Les Parisiens. “I have a good example. With Tottenham, in the quarter-finals against Manchester City in 2019, Harry Kane got injured in the 1st half of the 1st leg. We played nearly an hour and the…

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RMC Sport report that Ligue 1 side Stade de Reims’ manager David Guion announced to his players on Thursday that he will be stepping down at the end of the season, despite having almost certainly kept the club up in the division for another campaign. Reims President Jean-Pierre Caillot has since confirmed to L’Union that the club’s collaboration with Guion was coming to an end this summer, despite him having another 12 months remaining on his…

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L’Équipe report that Auxerre’s majority owner James Zhou is going to take over from Francis Graille as president of the Ligue 2 club, with the former essentially forcing the latter to step down. Graille is understood to have had tensions with current manager Jean-Marc Furlan, but this individual will nevertheless remain on the club board. Graille, 66, has been running the club since May 2017. Sporting Director Cédric Daury is also expected to be removed…

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Le Parisien report that Ligue 1 title chasers PSG have entered into contact with the entourage of French youth international attacking midfielder Romain Faivre about a possible summer transfer from Brest. SB29 will be seeking around €20m for the player’s services, with Les Parisiens facing competition from Bayer Leverkusen, Dortmund, Gladbach, Leeds and AC Milan, as well as Rennes and Nice, who have all been in contact with the player’s entourage. Click Here: custom rapid…

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