Two rooms, two atmospheres. While late in the afternoon of January 13 John Textorpresident of Eagle Football group, delivered an incriminating interview on RMC Sport against Vincent Labrune, president of the Professional Football League (LFP) and Nasser al-Khelaïfi, president of PSG, the Groupama stadium welcomed the partners of Olympique Lyonnaisin a more cozy atmosphere, under the leadership of Laurent Prud’hommeits general director.
Threats of relegation in Ligue 2 in the face of OL’s abysmal debt
Faced with an assembly seeking answers about the club’s situation, Laurent Prud’homme established OL as an institution.
“Jean Michel Aulas led the club for 36 years. It’s up to us to find our way today, to promote our partners and promote the excellence of our territory“, he said.
And the general director determines the reason for OL’s existence: “More than a football club, OL has an economic, political and societal responsibility. We must unite through emotion, inspire through ambition and transmit through conviction, this is our reason for being. We want to become the leading French football institution.“
An ambition which contrasts with the current situation of a club, in the sights of the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG) and which still remains subject to a recruitment ban, a control of its payroll, a possible demotion to Ligue 2 next season, and which has just hired a voluntary departure plan which concerns almost 90 employees.
The sale of the OL training center could bring in 20 million euros for John Textor
By the end of the season, OL will have to be able to repay almost 200 million euros in debt. A financial situation which alerted the auditors last November who have until then been unable to certify the accounts, due to lack of reliable guarantees. The situation could be regularized as early as next week according to Laurent Prud’homme.
Precisely and to strengthen its liquidity, John Textor announced in The Teamthat he was thinking of sell your training centerbased in Meyzieu, to the president of OL feminine, Michele Kang. This had already acquired the women’s section for 60 million euros and would then put it back on the table 20 million euros additional to buy the Academy site, from which a future 20,000-seat stadium could perhaps flourish.
2025, anniversary year of 75 years of the clubwill also be decisive for its survival at the highest level.
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