OL's financial difficulties make the club's sporting future in Ligue 1 unclear. This would make the Groupama Stadium useless or even harmful. The mayor of Décines does not hide her concern.
Bordeaux recently showed that the big French clubs can fall very low. An example which naturally worries the Lyonnais as OL were demoted to Ligue 2 as a precautionary measure by the DNCG. The Rhone club has several million euros in debt and it is not John Textor's recent media outings that reassure fans of the club. Les Gones supporters are not the only ones to tremble in the face of OL's economic slump. In addition to French football which could lose an important locomotive in a few months, the town of Décines-Charpieu is currently grimacing a lot.
Textor does not reassure the mayor of Décines
It is in this city of the Lyon metropolis that OL installed its Groupama Stadium as well as its training center at the beginning of 2016. Enough to offer significant financial benefits to Décines. However, this perfect plan will collapse in the event of the bankruptcy of Olympique Lyonnais next June. A scenario that frightens Laurence Fautra, the mayor of the town. At odds with John Textor because of the club's unpaid debts under the American's command, she urges him to resolve the situation as quickly as possible for the good of an entire territory.
« This is worrying for the future. This is damaging for the people who worked in this great company. We have a close partnership, because we manage in particular the arrival of supporters on the territory and the demonstrations. I hope they will find finances, because the crux of the matter is finding money so that the club is in a more sustainable situation. What I explained to Laurent Prud'homme is that we have money flows with them. But it's public money. And that’s due. This debt cannot be spread in installments and he is required to pay, if possible, within the necessary deadlines. “, she indicated in Lyon Mag. A reference to invoices returned unpaid from OL, and which penalize a municipality even if John Textor has promised to regularize this soon.
