Official Transfers, Abidal, and New Stadium

By: Julien | June 28th, 2007

The official website of Dijon FCO has confirmed the arrival of Alexis Zywiecki to the club for three years. The former Lille defender was out on loan to Dijon, and now has decided to stay there. Another confirmed transfer is former Lille midfielder Flavien Le Postellec’s move to FC Brussels. The transfer has now been confirmed on FC Brussels’ official website. It is not yet known how much the transfers cost. Although both of these players aren’t key losses to the club, Lille has now officially lost a total of 9 players during this transfer period and only gained 2. I think we have lost enough players for now. Let’s focus on recruiting new players to strengthen the club.

Eric Abidal’s transfer from Olympique Lyonnais to Barcelona will actually help out Lille. Supposely when Abidal was transferred to OL from LOSC, a clause called for a payment of 50% of the capital gain on a new transfer. Lille is expected to get around 3 million euros from Abidal’s new transfer. Thank you Abidal.

Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine’s Vice President, and the mayors of Lezennes and Villeneuve d’ Ascq, dicussed a revision of the PLU (Plan local d’urbanisme- local zoning plan) in front of several people recently. Questions were also answered during this meeting. Lille’s new stadium, Grand stade Lille Métropole, is supposed to be built at Villeneuve d’Ascq – Lezennes on the Borne de l’Espoir. The club’s former stadium idea, stade Grimonprez-Joris 2 was rejected, which caused the development of the current plan. Grand stade Lille Métropole’s seating capacity is expected to be 50,000. It also is anticipated to support a sliding roof, and a retractable lawn. Lille’s new stadium has been debated for a very long time now. It has become an arduous topic for the club and its fans. I am not sure if these talks will lead anywhere. It seems to me like it will take awhile for LOSC to obtain a new stadium, which is depressing and realistic.