Train chats, taxi lifts and rare access: unseen Ligue one season tales | OneFootball

With Ligue one finished Sunday, a clutch of offbeat snapshots emerged. According to L'Équipe, its correspondents opened notebooks while awaiting the play-off.

Early in the season on the 10.04 Lyon to Paris, OL defender Moussa Niakhaté helped a fellow passenger, then chatted over coffee in the bar carriage about a united squad and a season worth the wait.

Pierre Sage, newly at Lens, lived up to a Normal One tag. After winning the UNFP best coach award, he offered a lift at Gare du Nord and drove reporters to his press conference.

At Angers on 25 April, a 0-3 win, PSG’s pre-activation in a corridor opened onto the press room, so the warm-up was visible, from Lucas Chevalier’s yoga to Lucas Beraldo’s teasing and Matveï Safonov’s laughter.

Paris FC’s marquee 2025 arrival Kevin Trapp, 35, was startled by the Orly training showers and asked for the professionals’ building. Renovations followed, with further work under way and three extra pitches due next season.

On Wednesday 23 July 2025 in Tubize, Metz denied Boubacar Traoré, 24, was set to return on loan. He arrived smiling with luggage, the move was confirmed and the club looked briefly sheepish.

In Strasbourg, after 54 matches and a Conference League semi-final defeat to Rayo Vallecano, 0-1 and 0-1 on Thursday 7 May, architects at the Café Grognon logged feedback on the €160m Meinau, from a lone lift to few sockets and fine views, saying it would feed into a €500m Casablanca build for 2030.

Source: L'Équipe