Loïs Openda Joins Olympique Lyonnais on Loan

Loïs Openda is on the move again. After just one season in Turin, the Belgian forward is set to swap Juventus for Olympique Lyonnais, with multiple outlets reporting an agreement on a straight loan ahead of the 2026-27 campaign.

No buy option. No obligation. Just a clean, one-year deal.

Sky, Fabrizio Romano and several other sources align on the same picture: Openda will join Paulo Fonseca at Lyon, as the French club looks to add pace and direct running to its attack. For Juventus, it is a pragmatic piece of business. The loan fee is expected to come in at around €3m, a modest but useful sum for a player who never truly settled in black and white.

The key detail for the Italian side lies not in the fee, but in the salary. Earlier in the week, there were whispers that Juventus might have to shoulder part of Openda’s wages to push the move through. That complication has evaporated. Romano reports that Lyon will cover his salary in full, easing Juve’s wage bill and clearing space for their own squad manoeuvres.

It underlines how quickly Openda’s situation has shifted. Signed with high expectations, he leaves Turin after a single campaign that never quite caught fire, despite flashes of the explosive movement that made him such an attractive prospect. Now he steps into a different kind of pressure: a Lyon side trying to reassert itself in Ligue 1 under a coach who knows Serie A standards all too well.

For Fonseca, it is a calculated bet on a forward with something to prove and the tools to change games in transition. For Juventus, it is a reset. For Openda, it might be the season that decides which direction his career truly takes.