OL is more than ever in danger of death!

Second defeat for Olympique Lyonnais in three games. While most teams from the top of the table have done the job this weekend, like AS Monaco, Nice and Strasbourg while LOSC and OM neutralized, OL fell to the house against Lens on Sunday (2-1). If the content of the match was not necessarily bad, the Lyonnais having generally dominated the debates, the defeat may cost very dear.

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While there are only two short days of Ligue 1, the band of Rayan Cherki and Corentin Tolisso left is thus three points from fourth place in the classification occupied by Nice, which offers a ticket for the Champions League dams, and four points from third place, belonging to Monaco, which offers the direct ticket for the most prestigious of European competitions. And there is precisely an AS Monaco – OL which will therefore be decisive next Saturday … It will still take a miracle so that the Lyonnais participate in this next Champions League, competition that they have not played since the 2019/2020 season and this nice course with a semi -final. The Lyon players were also killed yesterday afternoon, aware of having (almost) lost everything.

The passage in front of the DNCG promises to be perilous

A sporting disappointment to come therefore, but above all an industrial and financial disaster looming on the horizon. As a reminder, OL is still under an administrative demotion in Ligue 2 dictated by the DNCG last November, and counted on this qualification in the Champions League and the revenues that go with it to look good in front of the financial gendarme of football during its passage in June. By making a cross on these beautiful sums which come when you participate in the competition, and while other levers announced by John Textor as the sale of the actions of Crystal Palace is long overdue, the Rhodanian club can clearly be taken over during its passage in front of the DNCG.

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Without forgetting the evil of TV rights which affects all French clubs and which deprives OL of another major source of income. A little more discreet than usual in recent weeks, John Textor is therefore necessarily known under pressure. As a reminder, Eagle Football Group recorded a loss of 117 million euros over the year 2024, and the American businessman group also owes large sums to certain creditors, including the ARES fund, which had injected 500 million euros to finance the club’s repurchase at the time. Suffice to say that the site that awaits Textor in the coming weeks is colossal.