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For “Square”, Jean-Michel Classesthe former President of Olympique Lyonnais, spoke about the player he recruited from the Girondins de Bordeaux, Yoann Gourcuff.
“There are failures every day… Failures are in particular the stadium. If I had had the stadium in 2010 rather than having it in 2016, we would have been European Champions. Afterwards, on a sporting level… There were plenty of other things on a sporting level, and the biggest sporting financial failure was of course Yoann Gourcuff’s transfer to Bordeaux. Nicolas de Tavernost calls me and says ‘listen, we are Champions of France – we beat Gourcuff in the quarter-final, who is at his highest level – you won’t believe me, but we are ready to give it to you. Well, on the other hand, you will have to pay the price. I feel like I’ve done the deal of the century… And then, unfortunately, Yoann had these problems, which are really psychological problems… And that, as a football entrepreneur, is is incredible. Well, we transformed after the club, because we continued to do well, and I think we played dozens and dozens of matches at European level… I think we played close to 250 matches Europeans with Olympique Lyonnais, you realize… It’s something… But on the other hand, it’s true that with Yoann, we didn’t win what we should have won, that’s it.
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