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A host of European clubs will send representatives to watch Saturday night’s Ligue 1 clash between Dijon and Monaco.

Newcastle United, Watford, RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen, Torino, Atalanta and Real Betis will all have scouts present at the Stade Gaston Gérard tonight, according to Ignazio Genuardi.

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Lyon’s 22-year-old defensive midfielder Bruno Guimarães has received his first call-up to the Brazilian national team for upcoming 2022 World Cup qualifying matches.

He is joined in Tite’s latest squad by PSG’s trio of Marquinhos, Thiago Silva and Neymar.

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The LFP will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow morning at 10:00 local time to discuss the possibility of suspending all Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 action with immediate effect owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Top flights in Italy, Spain and Portugal have all already suspended.

The French Football Federation has this evening announced the suspension of all semi-pro and amateur football games, at least for this weekend.

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Speaking in an interview with LesViolets.com, 25-year-old Toulouse FC attacker Firmin Mubele, who is currently on loan at Kazakhstan side Astana, told the outlet that he had no intention of returning to Les Violets if they were relegated to Ligue 2 next season.

“I am doing good, I am currently in Lille, recovering (from a recent injury). If everything is normal, I should return to Astana in the beginning of April to return to training with the squad… I am on loan here until the end of June. We will discuss the future after that. No, no I am not interested (in playing with Toulouse in Ligue 2).”

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France Football report that 28-year-old Marseille wide player Bouna Sarr is attracting significant interest from Spanish side Sevilla.

Last season, the La Liga club acquired Lucas Ocampos from OM and they recently watched Sarr on two occasions, at OM’s 2-2 draw with Amiens and during their 3-1 away victory at Nîmes.

The player has been a trusty option for André Villas Boas, who has named him as a potential future club captain, but under the threat of UEFA sanctions, Marseille will not be able to hold on to anyone if the bids are considerable.

Sarr is valued by the market at the moment between €10m and €15m.

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TF1 report that Ligue 1 side AS Monaco may be brought to sell 19-year-old central defender Benoît Badiashile this summer, as they will likely face financial difficulties after they failed to qualify for European football for the second season running.

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Lyon have already made enquiries, and discussions are already ongoing with a number of clubs in England and Spain.

L’Équipe report that Ligue 1 duo for next season, FC Lorient and FC Nantes, are closely watching the situation of 26-year-old South Korean international attacker Jung-Bin Park.

Out of contract with Swiss 1st division side Servette in June, he could represent a cost effective early summer transfer window deal.

He scored 4 goals in 6 games for Servette, arriving last October from Danish outfit Viborg FF.

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Speaking in an interview with L’Équipe du Soir, Lyon President Aulas confirmed that two legal actions have commenced against the LFP following their decision to definitively terminate the 2019/20 Ligue 1 campaign.

“We hesitated a lot over doing it. The board of directors at Olympique Lyonnais, which is a company on the stock market, took the decision to file a lawsuit (in Paris courts). Money is not the major concern for Olympique Lyonnais. This is a club which has gone from the very bottom to the very top. We have first demanded to examine the possibility of returning to football. The decision from the Minister of Sports (Roxana Maracineanu) is based on the date of 3rd August, which does not exist at UEFA, whilst taking into account health and medical protocols. We can examine in detail with the Prime Minister (Édouard Philippe) and Minister of Health (Olivier Véran) the health protocols that have been given the green light in all the European countries and see if there is a possibility to return. The second (lawsuit) pertains to the way in which the league was stopped and the way in which the final standings were calculated, to see if they are legitimate… We need to analyse things, see if clubs are hurt by this decision. For the moment, we are not talking about financial prejudice.”

“It does not relate to millions, but to a certain number of decisions in the general interest.”

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RMC Sport report that Rennes and Lille, as well as a third, unnamed Ligue 1 club, have opened negotiations with Manchester City over a possible loan with option to buy deal for 19-year-old defensive midfielder Claudio Gomes.

Gomes, a PSG youth academy product, moved to Manchester City in 2018, but has not been able to break into the Premier League side’s 1st team.

In recent days, Gomes has decided to switch representation from English agency Stellar to French lawyer Badou Sambague, who currently represents Samuel Grandsir, Timothy Weah and Mohamed Simakan.

Loaned to PSV this season after having made just two appearances in the City 1st team in 2018, Gomes appeared 21 times for the Dutch reserves in 2019/20.

He now wants to find a new club – under contract with Manchester City until 2023, the player is not against the idea of signing in Ligue 1 on a permanent basis.

Although there is competition abroad, Gomes will prioritise projects which offer him consequential game time.

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Today at 13:00, the national court began to hear the cases put by Lyon, Toulouse and Amiens which seek to challenge the premature termination of the 2019/20 Ligue 1 campaign. The outcome of these cases will be heard between 10th to 12th June.

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After another week filled with Ligue 1 club presidents claiming that the government forced the LFP to terminate the season, countered by the French government saying it was the LFP who made this decision, it is clear that the phrase uttered by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe on 28th April: “The 2019/20 professional sports seasons, notably football, cannot restart,” has become a key bone of contention in the ongoing French Football Farce.

Le Parisien claim today that it was in fact French President Emmanuel Macron who personally took the season to end the 2019/20 Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 campaigns. In the first instance because of the obvious health risks attached with continuing to play, at the time at which quarantine was in its infancy.

However, Macron also elected to consult with four key figures before making his decision, owing to his personal relationships with them – at least 50% of them, notably Marseille President Jacques-Henri Eyraud and Paris FC owner Pierre Ferracci, had a footballing interest in seeing the campaigns end there. OM, because they would be guaranteed Champions’ League football, and Paris FC, because they would secure Ligue 2 status for another season after a very complicated campaign during which they spent the majority of it rooted in the relegation zone but just so happened to lie in 17th place when quarantine set in.

Described by the newspaper as an approach taken by Macron so that he could hear from representatives of the three main families of French football: lower leagues, the top tier and the national team set-up. Macron believes that he has successfully negotiated the COVID-19 crisis for football through making government schemes like partial employment and the state-guaranteed loan systems, available to the sport’s main bodies.

Le Parisien reveal today that Pierre Ferracci regularly called Emmanuel Macron in a bid to convince him to move to terminate the 2019/20 season with immediate effect. Ferracci’s son, Marc, is an economist and was a witness at Emmanuel Macron’s wedding, with Macron also having been at Marc’s wedding. Marc was Macron’s Chief of Staff when the politician was the Minister of Economy under François Hollande. The intimate relationship between Ferracci and Macron is undeniable, however Ferracci has sought to deny any lobbying of any sort:

“Each person is free to invent fantasies to make it forgotten that certain individuals put considerable pressure on the Minister of Sports and the government, using financial arguments and health arguments that largely contributed to discredit the possibility of a return to action. My position has always been clear and public. Since the beginning, I asked that we study the impact of a permanent cessation of the season, which was not done, sadly. And, at the end, I asked for it to be stopped because health conditions were not present for a return.”

Didier Deschamps’ counsel was also sought after by Macron, who knows the significance that the manager of the French national team holds for the country’s football fanatics. Concerned about the health of players and the unrelenting rhythm required from them, which regularly brings about injuries that prevent players from representing the French national team, Deschamps viewed it as wiser to give players a rest rather than running from one season straight into another. Of course, the majority of his squad does not play in Ligue 1, but it still afforded him the possibility of getting longer rest periods for individuals like Kylian Mbappé, Léo Dubois, Steve Mandanda, Wissam Ben Yedder and others.

FFF President Noël Le Graët appears to have been more exigent in his desire to get the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2019/20 campaigns terminated, having made multiple phone calls to Macron to achieve this. On 16th April, the FFF 12 days before Édouard Philippe’s announcement terminated all amateur competitions and made a very strategic move on 28th April to do an interview with Le Télégramme in which he announced that Ligue 1 was over before the LFP could meet 2 days later to make their own determination.

Marseille President Jacques-Henri Eyraud was Macron’s last port of call, having lobbied the French president to bring about the end of the 2019/20 season because Champions’ League football for OM was going to be critical in overcoming the €127m losses that the club is understood to currently be presiding over. The Elysée has denied such contact, but Le Parisien stand firm. Macron is well-known to be a Marseille supporter.

UEFA are still yet to announce a formal date by which 2019/20 league competitions must be brought to an end, despite the persistent claims from Minister for Sports Roxana Maracineanu that the government was forced to end the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 campaigns because the European body had insisted that 3rd August was the cut off point for all action to be completed. This has been proven to have been incorrect, it was merely a suggested date during a UEFA Executive Committee video-conference which is believed to have been devastatingly misinterpreted by the FFF Director General Florence Hardouin.

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