It should be remembered, six Lyon executives will be at the end of their contract in the summer of 2021: Griedge MBock (injured in Achilles tendon), Delphine Cascarino, Amandine Henry, Eugénie Le Sommer, Saki Kumagai and Sakina Karchaoui. To these great players, very widely used by Jean-Luc Vasseur, is also added the Portuguese striker and international Jessica Silva (only 6 games for 100 minutes of playing time since her arrival in 2019, she also injured her tendon in ‘Achilles in March 2020).
If the British International Jodie Taylor has finally extended her stay for 6 months in the Rhône and the Norwegian Ballon d’Or Ada Hegerberg, who has been in the game for another 3 years, is back after more than a year of absence (rupture of the cruciate ligament in the right knee then stress fracture in the left tibia), the Rhone club could still prospect to ensure its rear if several leading players of the team came to leave.
According to the German site Soccer Donna, Sofia Jakobsson, who has been playing for two seasons at Real Madrid after having known the women’s D1 with the MHSC (2014-19), would have been approached by Lyon. Combative, capable of evolving on the whole front of the attack, would the Swedish international be a track seriously considered by OL? If the club are considering rebuilding and building a new team in the long term, the Jakobsson choice could seem strange given the maturity of the player, who will turn 31 in 3 months. An experienced player, but not really a bet on the future …
FC Barcelona should not let its nugget slip away so easily
Another name mentioned, that of Caroline Graham Hansen. Tracked for a while by the Rhone club, the 25-year-old Norwegian international, who plays as a right midfielder at FC Barcelona, regularly named among the best players in the world for his ease in destabilizing opposing defenses and distributing brilliant passes ( 9 assists last year, already 6 goals in the league this season), would strongly interest the European champion club. But the Blaugrana, well aware of her talent, should not let their nugget slip away too eventually and should do everything to renew Hansen, also at the end of her contract in June 2021.
Nothing is lost, however, when we know the persuasive force of Jean-Michel Aulas …
> The name of Vivianne Miedema would also circulate. But it is hard to imagine the 24-year-old Arsenal striker, currently in discussions for a new contract with her English club, admittedly top scorer in the history of the Netherlands but playing in the same position as the Ballon d’Or Ada Hegerberg , disembark in Lyon.
