the FFF appeals committee maintains the ban on OL recruitment

The appeals committee of the DNCG, the financial policeman of French Football, maintained on Friday against Lyon, the ban on recruiting and the supervision of its payroll after a new hearing of OL, we learned L’AFP from a source close to the club, confirming information from The Team .

The “demotion as a precautionary measure at the end of the current sporting season” of the club, currently 5th in Ligue 1, decided in November at first instance, was not concerned by the appeal of the club which hoped for more lenient sanctions by presenting itself at the FFF headquarters in Paris, with new arguments.

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To influence French football authorities, OL has brought forward the departure of its goalkeeper Anthony Lopes for Nantes, whose significant savings in salaries and charges allows a reduction in the payroll, as well as the transfers of Jeffinho to Botafogo for 5.3 million euros and from Gift Orban to Hoffenheim for 9 million euros.

Other contract transfers are also planned between now and the end of January and the winter transfer window while Olympique Lyonnais will also have high-paid players at the end of their contract at the end of the season such as Alexandre Lacazette and Nicholas Tagliafico.

Maxence Caqueret, former team executive, today lacking playing time, could for example bounce back to Como in the Italian Serie A in the coming days.

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Finally, the Eagle Football Holding structure, which includes OL, Botafogo (Brazil champion) and Molenbeek (Belgian 2nd division), announced on November 22 that it had completed a first fundraising of 40 million dollars (38. 5 M EUR) carried out by UCEA Capital Partners, a company based in London.

This investment comes as part of a funding round worth $100 million before its listing on the New York Stock Exchange scheduled for the first quarter of 2025.

These new elements did not convince the appeal committee of the National Directorate of Management Control.

At the end of the season, OL will return to the DNCG which will validate or not administrative relegation to Ligue 2.

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