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In exchange for the sale of Rayan Cherki to Manchester City for 42.5 million euros, Olympique Lyonnais negotiated the loan of a Skyblues workforce during this summer transfer window in return.
With the relegation to Ligue 2 pronounced by the DNCG, a sanction of which Olympique Lyonnais called on, the option of resorting to a Citizen becomes more and more interesting for the Gones. Recently, The team Explained that the Rhone club, which saw Juma Bah preferred to join Nice, was failed in the Oscar Bobb and Abdukodir Khusanov files. James McATEE and Claudio Echeverri have also been envisaged without these tracks arising for the moment.
With the uncertainty surrounding the future of Georges Mikautadze, valued at more than 20 million euros and which is one of the sales scheduled for this summer to bail out the boxes, another track could have interested the Gones, that leading to Divine Mubama. Already targeted by OL last summer at the end of his contract with West Ham, the 20 -year -old striker preferred to join Manchester City.
Another failed meeting between Divine Mubama and OL
At the end of a full season with the reserve (16 goals in 14 games) and a goal scored in FA Cup during one of his two appearances of the season in the first team, the young talent was even announced recently on the tablets of Lille, who finally opted for Olivier Giroud and Hamza Igamane.
Welcome to the Potteries, Divin Mubama 👋
The 20-year-old striker joins the Potters on a season-long loan from Manchester City.
— Stoke City FC (@stokecity) July 5, 2025
But Divine Mubama will still not join the Rhône this summer. Indeed, this Saturday, Stoke City, 18th of the last exercise of Championship (out of 24), formalized his arrival as part of a one year loan. Too bad because, in the event of a Ligue 2 in particular, the Briton would have represented an excellent reinforcement available for free for Lyonnais…
