As everyone's probably already heard, Fabio Grosso went down in the 18th min of Italy's 2-1 win over Cyprus. Fabio left the game with an injury to his flank. The diagnosis is two fractured ribs. It's believed he will be out of the Lyon line-up for at least one month. That amounts to Grosso missing at least (6) matches.

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Auxerre
In: Jeremy Berthod (undisclosed, Monaco), Cedric Hengbart (undisclosed, Caen), Moussa Narry (undisclosed, Etoile du Sahel), Dariusz Dudka (undisclosed, Wisla Krakow), Amadou Sidibe (undisclosed, Djoliba Bamako)
Out:

Bordeaux
In: Yoann Gourcuff (loan, AC Milan), Yoan Gouffran (undisclosed, Bordeaux), Diego Placente (undisclosed, San Lorenzo)
Out:

Caen
In: Pablo Barzola (undisclosed, Caen)
Out: Yoan Gouffran (undisclosed, Bordeaux), Benoit Castil (loan, Vannes), Stephane Sanson (undisclosed, Reims), Cedric Hengbart (undisclosed, Auxerre)

Grenoble
In: Daniel Moreira (loan, Rennes)
Out:

Le Havre
In: Nicolas Dieuze (undisclosed, Toulouse)
Out:

Le Mans
In: Anthony Le Tallec (undisclosed, Liverpool)
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Ecco alcuni trasferimenti effettuati dai club francesi all'ultimo giorno di mercato.

Dopo il sudcoreano Park Chu Young e lo svizzero Patrick Muller, il Monaco ha ingaggiato il centrocampista nigeriano Sani Kaita, 22 anni, che ha firmato un contratto triennale dopo essersi svincolato dagli olandese dello Sparta Rotterdam.

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Although we've all been waiting for the eventual signing of The Rock, John Mensah -which should happen today, Monday- there are other smaller happenings in the Mercato. I apologize for the shortness of the piece, but transfer news is scant lately. I thought I'd throw in some tiny morcels of info to keep the stomach growling to a minimum for those of us who are genuine transfer news junkies, and for those of us who don't read French.

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Lyon had their first summer friendly this afternoon against Nimes in Albertville. Goals were scored by Juninho (10), Yannis Tafer (40), and Anthony Mounier (63). This was Claude Puel's first match in charge, and for many of the players, their first match in an OL jersey.

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I've totally been avoiding writing about this because part of me still believes that it's only a nightmare...But man, out of the eleven OL players in Euro 2008, only one will be showing his face in the quarterfinals.

I have nine other identical pictures just like this.

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Word on the street is that Sevilla are very interested in Sebastien Squillaci - so interested that they have already made a €5m offer to Lyon and have come to an agreement with the player. Lyon have agreed to the transfer in principle but want more money from Sevilla.

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Seems like his hard work has paid off. Patrick Muller has been included among the provisional 26 Swiss call ups for Euro 2008!

With the tournament being held in his native Switzerland, this call up is very important to Muller, who had originally feared that he would miss the Euro 2008 entirely back when he injured his knee ligament last fall.

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