Fabien Le Floc’h, Media365: published on Friday January 10, 2025 at 4:55 p.m.
OL are successfully completing their long-awaited downsizing operation, with Caqueret, Adryelson and Nuamah expected to leave Lyon very soon.
Banned from recruitment and threatened with relegation to Ligue 2 at the end of the season, Olympique Lyonnais knows that mistakes are prohibited during this winter transfer window to succeed in convincing the DNCG, with whom the club has a meeting this Friday. After the departures of Anthony Lopes (Nantes), Jeffinho (Botafogo), and Orban (Hoffenheim), OL should record the departure of three players in the coming days. The first of them is Maxence Caqueret. After losing his place under the orders of Pierre Sage, the 24-year-old midfielder will join Como, in Serie A. According to L’Equipe, the Italian club will pay 17 million euros (€15 million + €2 million bonus) for Caqueretwho will not be in the Rhone group for the match against Brest (this Saturday at 5 p.m., editor’s note).
Nuamah courted in Premier League
A sum which will obviously do a lot of good to Lyon’s finances. But that’s not all, since Como is also considering making an offer for another OL midfielder, Nemanja Matic. Barely back from Botafogo, the Brazilian defender Adryelson should quickly head to Belgium. The 26-year-old Brazilian should be loaned to Anderlecht until the end of the season, with a purchase option close to €5 million, which will also allow OL to free up a place for a non-EU player in its squad. .
After refusing a departure in the very last hours of the last summer transfer window at Fulham, Ernest Nuamah this time seems more inclined to leave the banks of the Rhône to join England. The Ghanaian winger, who has never managed to win in Lyon since his arrival in the summer of 2023, is of great interest to Everton, in great difficulty in the Premier League (16th). The OL will not retain Nuamahwhose lack of accuracy in the last gesture is starting to exasperate (one goal and one assist this season in 16 games). And this even if Pierre Sage continues to believe in him, since the 21-year-old winger started in the last two Ligue 1 matches, in Paris before the break (1-3) and against Montpellier last weekend ( 1-0).
