Linked with a move away from OGC Nice, Jonathan Clauss will not play any part against AJ Auxerre on Saturday night. 

Clauss was absent from Thursday’s training session, attended by Get French Football News. Whilst the club have cited a minor ankle problem, Franck Haise admitted that Clauss, amid interest from Bayer Leverkusen, wants to leave the club. His absence from the matchday squad can be attributed to those wishes for a move away. 

Dante and Mohamed-Ali Cho have not trained this week and will miss Nice’s second consecutive home match. Kevin Carlos, who signed in midweek from Basel, is in the squad and could make his debut off the bench, although it is Terem Moffi who is expected to get the nod up front. 

OGC Nice likely line-up v Auxerre

Yehvann Diouf; Kojo Peprah Oppong, Juma Bah, Antoine Mendy; Melvin Bard, Salis Abdul Samed, Hicham Boudaoui, Tom Louchet; Jérémie Boga, Terem Moffi, Badredine Bouanani. (L’Éq)