While one former Liverpool player, Xabi Alonso, is arguably the hottest property in the football coach market at the moment, with two of his former clubs — the Reds and FC Bayern Munich — heavily linked with leading them from next season, another LFC alumnus, Albert Riera, is quietly forging...
Up until this past weekend, at the time of writing, Girondins de Bordeaux sat top of Ligue 2. Their 1-0 loss to Nîmes Olympique last weekend came at the same time as a win for Le Havre which saw the Normandy club leapfrog Bordeaux to the top of France’s second...
FC Girondins Bordeaux ended the season at the bottom of Ligue 1. A catastrophic campaign saw Bordeaux concede 91 goals in 38 games. A record that was equalled after 44 years, when Rouen conceded as many. Bordeaux's games saw 143 goals across the season, a number that no team in...
With the majority of leagues wrapped up for the summer, attention has now turned to the upcoming summer transfer window, with speculation over a number of players’ futures already rife. One club who have completed some business this week is Chelsea Women, with Emma Hayes’ side previously unable to add...
Yacine Adli (186cm/6’1”, 78kg/172lbs) joined Serie A giants AC Milan last summer for a reported €8m and a season-long loan back to the club he’d been signed from for 2021/22 — Ligue 1’s Girondins de Bordeaux. The 21-year-old playmaker joined Bordeaux from PSG 31 months before this Milan transfer, in...
Players of African descent, such as the likes of Chelsea’s Didier Drogba, Liverpool’s Mo Salah and the first African Ballon d’Or winner, George Weah have been lighting up the football world for many decades. On our television screens, we see these wonderful players doing wonderful things; one thing we do...
There was no shortage of expectation placed on Timothée Pembélé (182cm/5’11”, 72kg/158lbs) when he made his debut for Paris Saint-Germain last season. When he burst onto the scene for the Ligue 1 giants, his under-15s coach, Said Aigoun, described him as “one of the best of his generation” and a...
Girondins de Bordeaux currently occupy the 12th place on the Ligue 1 table. They are ten points off Nîmes Olympique in the league’s relegation play-off place, which puts them closer to that position than they are to LOSC Lille, who currently sit in the fourth place (Europa League group stage...
