OL is in the red and under threat from authorities for economic management in the Textor style. But Jean-Michel Aulas is also singled out.
The financial situation of Olympique Lyonnais may well be the subject of major concern in the coming weeks. The athlete will get back on track with Ligue 1 and the Europa League, but the threat now hangs over the John Textor version of OL. The latter immediately sold the club's family jewels which are the OL Reign franchise, but also the OL women's team, and the LDLC Arena as well. Despite this, his group has enormous debts and it is not certain that an IPO or sale of Crystal Palace shares could resolve everything. An overall system worrying enough for the DNCG to pronounce a provisional relegation to Ligue 2 if no improvement takes place in the coming months.
If the American's way of doing things, who juggles between his clubs and ensures that this allows everyone to be a winner, leaves many people wary, the responsibility of Jean-Michel Aulas is also pointed out. Journalist specializing in French football for the American media CBS, Jonathan Johnson recalled that JMA was the one who sold the club to Textor, and above all that the financial and sporting decline had been underway for several years already.
« Former owner of OL for almost 40 years, Jean-Michel Aulas deserves enormous credit for having built Lyon, but must also assume some responsibility for allowing a form of complacency to set in before the sale. The French leader is distancing himself from a possible comeback, focusing on women's football which he has always supported. He had also made the OL women's team a more powerful team than the men's team in Lyon. Yet it was one of the first assets John Textor sold upon his arrival. Aulas made Lyon something great and respected in France and Europe, but he also clung too much to his position when a more innovative approach would have allowed Les Gones to evolve and avoid the scenario that 'they are currently living », asserts the CBS journalist, for whom Aulas clearly did not prepare the sequel and was clearly surprised by the way in which John Textor ejected him from his post in a very short time.
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