“The whole team is not for sale,” OL president John Textor, exceptional guest of the show, insisted on RMC Rothen ignitesthis Monday.
Since the opening of the winter transfer market window, Olympique Lyonnais has recorded several departures. From Gift Orban to Anthony Lopes, they made it possible to lighten OL's finances, which were repressed by the DNCG, which in the fall pronounced a ban on recruitment as well as a control of the club's payroll (sanctions confirmed on appeal last Friday), all accompanied by a demotion to Ligue 2 as a precautionary measure.
If OL want to avoid the decline, they will therefore have to present guarantees on their financial situation. The sale of players contributes to this effort by bringing in new money. But if other movements are expected by the end of January, John Textor refutes the idea that a large clearance sale at knockdown prices is being prepared in Lyon.
“We told them to get out”
“My whole team is not for sale. It’s bullshit!”, he railed on the show Rothen igniteson RMC. “You saw the headlines 'Lyon is in trouble' and you made the shortcut 'everyone is for sale'. But who said everyone was for sale? It was you who said that. I'm talking about the press in general. Our plan has always been the same. Sell the players we planned to sell before the DNCG announcements. “I'm interested in selling the players I want to sell, if I can replace them with stronger ones. And that hasn't changed despite the bullshit linked to the DNCG. I read everywhere that everyone is sell. I have clubs in Turkey contacting me with insulting offers for my best players because they think we are desperate. They were told to get out.
