December 31 is New Year's Eve, but football fans also know that this date marks the start of the winter transfer window. And in Ligue 1, these are goalkeepers who are exchanged and are currently attracting envy.
In Lyon, it is the end of an adventure that lasted 24 years. Anthony Lopes leaves his training club after 489 matches. A departure with a heavy heart because he has been sidelined since the start of the season and has not played a single minute of play.
Released from his contract, the 34-year-old goalkeeper signed up for six months, with an option for two years. with FC Nantes. The Canaries who were looking for a replacement for Alban Laffont. The 25-year-old Frenchman lost his starting place this fall and has been hoping since the summer for a rebound outside of Loire-Atlantique.
It will perhaps be in Lens where his name is whispered among other suitors. There too, a place will become available with the probable departure of Brice Samba, the captain of the Sang et Or. Mike Maignan's understudy with the Blues is announced with insistence in Brittany, in Renneswhere the club's new coach, Jorge Sampaoli, is looking for a replacement for Steve Mandanda, in whom he never had confidence, neither in Marseille previously, nor in Rennes today. Mandanda, who is 39 years old, could be the big loser in this game of musical chairs.
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