Reece's numbers game

In the dying minutes of the second-last game of the 1989 British and Irish Lions tour of Australia, played in Newcastle four days after the third Test match, NSW Country Cockatoos re-enacted ‘Gallipoli’.From the back of a scrum on the Lions’ 22m line, Cockatoos scrum half Rob Long popped a ball for hard-charging winger Dwayne […]

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Rennes strike €3.5m deal with Strasbourg for Jonas Martin

RMC report that Ligue 1 side Rennes have found an agreement worth €3.5m excluding bonuses with Strasbourg for French midfielder Jonas Martin. The 29-year-old represents SRFC’s replacement for Benjamin André, who joined Lille earlier this summer. Martin will arrive in Brittany tomorrow to sign a 3-year contract. Strasbourg are in talks to land a replacement […]

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Official | Jonas Martin is a Rennes player for €4m

Ligue 1 side Rennes have confirmed the arrival of 29-year-old French central midfielder Jonas Martin from Strasbourg. The former Montpellier man moves to a club that can offer him Europa League football this season, after his now former team RCSA fell at the last hurdle against Eintracht Frankfurt to qualify for the competition’s group stages […]

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FEATURE | Positional Analysis – ex-Lille man & Arsenal record signing Nicolas Pépé – a statistical deep-dive

Nicolas Pépé was one of Ligue 1’s standout players last term as Lille OSC stormed to an unexpected runners-up finish after they’d spent much of the 2017-18 campaign battling relegation (click on graphics to enlarge). He of course subsequently joined Arsenal for a club-record initial €79m at the beginning of August. Having previously assessed Pépé’s apparent […]

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FEATURE | From Troublemaker to Scottish Champion – Witnessing the rise of Odsonne Édouard

The match between France U21s and Czech Republic U21s that took place on September 9th was destined to be another simple friendly, with the young Frenchmen winning 3-1 in a relatively empty Stade de l’Aube in Troyes. But every game brings its share of lessons, and this one was no exception. Indeed, the performance of French striker Odsonne Édouard gave […]

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Marco Verratti signs new PSG deal until 2024

RMC report that Italian midfielder Marco Verratti has signed a new contract with PSG which will run until 2024. The Italian came to Paris in 2012, and after several months of negotiations undertaken by Leonardo, the Sporting Director, and the player’s agent Mino Raiola, Verratti has signed a new contract. His previous deal ran until […]

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