After a magnificent season punctuated by a title of champion of France, LOSC has its work cut out for next season.
As expected, many elements should leave the club during the next summer transfer window.
Departures already recorded ...
Only three days after winning the championship, the Mastiffs have already lost Mike Maignan. The PSG-trained goalkeeper had his medical visit this Tuesday morning with AC Milan and is expected to join Lombardy for 15 million euros. Also this Tuesday, the instigator of Lille's success, Christophe Galtier announced his departure from the club. Arrived in the fall of 2017, Galtier miraculously saved the LOSC in 2017-18 before leading the club to the Champions League and then to the title of champion of France. The former ASSE coach has a very good rating on the Ligue 1 coaching market. Nice and Lyon are the main candidates to welcome him. The Côte-d'Azur club wants to build its project around the former Lille coach. With the shareholder INEOS, Nice could be an interesting challenge for Galtier.However the latter would have according to the
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met OL management. Galtier has the advantage of having already worked in Lyon in 2007-08, where he was assistant to Alain Perrin. In the capital of Gones, Galtier will have the second largest budget in France and significant financial resources.
Sven Botman, one of the revelations of the Lille season, formed an effective duo with Fonte in central defense.
Arrived from Ajax this summer for 8 million euros, England and Manchester United in particular are looking soft at the 21-year-old Dutch hope who could leave for 30 million euros.
At the end of the contract, next year, Boubakary Soumaré should not make old bones in the North.
Like Botman, it is to England that the player trained at PSG should turn.
Leicester City appear to be holding the rope.
Lille can hope to sell it between 15 and 25 million euros.
... Others could follow
Even if some players are not announced as starters, it is not impossible to see them leave the club before the end of the summer.
Revealed at Euro 2016 at the age of 19, Renato Sanches had struggled to confirm the hopes placed in him at the end of the competition of which he was an essential cog.
Arrived at LOSC in 2019, after failing at Bayern, the Portuguese has found color in the North.
Although he remains sometimes inconstant, sometimes brilliant, the Lusitanian seems ready to evolve in a more upscale club and no doubt that a good performance at the Euro can increase his odds.
Finally players such as Reinildo, Xeka, Yazici or Celik could leave the club during the next transfer window.
Not announced as starters, they have good odds on the market.
Those who should stay
If the LOSC is going to lose many elements, others should stay.
The three Jonathans (Bamba, Ikoné, David) will, unless there is a big offer, continue in the North.
Arrived last summer for more than 25 million Euros, David should stay at least one more season at LOSC.
If Ikoné interests Borussia Dortmund according to France Football, there would still be nothing concrete.
Finally, old men such as Fonte and Yilmaz (37 and 35) will undoubtedly continue the adventure but are not long-term solutions, they who have more years behind than ahead.
The many transfers should, however, bring money into the club's coffers to be able to recruit and build a competitive workforce capable of playing the first three places in the league and the Champions League.
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