OL will have to clean up their squad, and what could be better than doing everything so that Anthony Lopes, a goalkeeper who doesn't play and has a huge salary, leaves quickly.
In great financial difficulty, whatever John Textor says since the DNCG decided to give a yellow card close to red last week, Olympique Lyonnais will have a complicated few months to come. The transfer window should help relieve the club's finances, but there is no guarantee that sales will bring the accounts back to normal. All sporting directors can confirm it, no one does what they want with players during the transfer market. But certain files will have to be resolved as a priority, and this is the case with that of Anthony Lopes.
2 million euros to scratch for OL
According to several sources, the Franco-Portuguese goalkeeper, who continues to receive his generous salary without the slightest prospect of having playing time, will be very strongly pushed out in January. He is certainly in his last year of contract, but Lopes was one of OL's executives until last summer. He therefore has a salary of more than 4 million euros per year which John Textor continues to pay. Not only were there no sales in the summer transfer window, but salaries plus expenses are weighing on Lyon's finances. As a result, his free departure is strongly recommended, if only to save the 2 million euros in salary that remains to be paid.
The emblematic OL goalkeeper still needs to find a buyer, he who seemed determined to earn his place in the rotation at the start of the season. But he has now made up his mind, and his departure could be a real blessing for John Textor, because he is a very high-paid player who will most likely not play a single minute this season with Lyon.
