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Marseille and Lorient meet at the Stade Velodrome on Friday evening with both sides aiming to secure their first win of the season. The home side’s only point so far came from a goalless draw with Toulouse on the opening weekend and manager Franck Passi will be looking for his side to respond to their…

According to Le Parisien, goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu has moments ago signed a deal to join Sevilla on loan for the forthcoming season from PSG. There is no buy-clause included in the deal and Sevilla will only pay a portion of the Italian international’s wages. Click Here: shopskm

The following article is extracted from Get French Football News’s 200,000 word guide to the world of French football, The Get French Football News 100 which focuses on ranking individuals’ performances over the course of 2015 as a calendar year. To download the whole guide, click here. The following piece was written in December 2015 and published on the 1st January 2016. Sofiane…

According to Le Parisien, Lyon have in recent hours made an enquiry for FC Sion forward Moussa Konaté. The 23 year old could be an option for OL in the final hours of this transfer window, with previous target Juan Iturbe now more likely to remain with AS Roma, according to Gianluca di Marzio. Click Here: men football…

Adam White and Eric Devin return with their weekly Ligue 1 Talking Points Column. 1 | PSG’s unbalanced squad may be their undoing… Jesé, Krychowiak, Ben Arfa, Meunier and Areola (who returns): Does this list of players amount of a productive transfer window for PSG? Given the evidence so far, the answer seems to be…

Former Lyon and Stade de Reims boss Hubert Fournier is now the clear favourite to take the vacant managerial seat at Ligue 1 strugglers FC Lorient. President Loïc Féry and VP Alex Hayes are understood to be on the same page about offering Fournier the position and it appears to be only a matter of…

Lorient’s struggles to find a new manager in the wake of their dismissal of Sylvain Ripoll have been well-documented, and even the source of some embarrassment to the club. First Elie Baup, then Rolland Courbis rejected the club’s advances. Remi Garde wasn’t interested either, despite his stock being at an ebb following his disastrous tenure…

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema today had an appeal to prevent investigators from continuing to wiretap his phone rejected by the Versailles court, in a big blow to his ultimate aim of getting the charges of allegedly intending to blackmail Mathieu Valbuena with a sextape thrown out, according to the AFP. Benzema’s legal team had believed…

Ligue 1 outfit Angers SCO are in advanced talks to sign Ivorian international central defender Wilfried Kanon from Dutch outfit ADO Den Haag. The 23 year old’s contract expires at the end of the current campaign, and a deal is close, according to L’Équipe. Click Here: Italy National Team soccer tracksuit

Ligue 1 side Toulouse have approached Montpellier about the possibility of signing Frenchman and former Evian forward Kevin Berigaud on loan until the end of the season, according to L’Équipe. Toulouse are also considering Benjamin Jeannot (FC Lorient) and Corentin Jean (AS Monaco), with the idea to sign at least one striker this window. 28 year…