While OL could be demoted to L2 at the end of the season by the DNCG, due to its debt, the club's president, John Textor, assures that this will not be the case. And he notably promises a drastic reduction in the payroll next summer.
Complicated, at the moment, to see clearly for OL supporters. While their team is slowly but surely climbing back to the heights of Ligue 1, and Lacazette and others even won the derby against ASSE (1-0), the DNCG made their blood run cold by indicating that Ligue 2 would be a reality at the end of the season (as a precautionary measure) if the debt was not reduced. And this before next summer.
Not enough, as we know, to worry John Textor, the American president of the Lyon club, who swears that OL will never be relegated. Because, according to him, he has a player base large enough to recover tens of millions of euros this winter with sales, but above all he will reduce, and drastically, the payroll of the workforce in a few months. This is precisely what he announced this Saturday to journalists. “The wage bill will increase from 128.4 million euros to 74.3 million euros, i.e. 50 million savings. »
Not the same account analysis
By selling several items this winter, OL will indeed recover tens of millions and, as a result, will see their payroll reduced. Considerably. We know in particular that Lacazette, who earns nearly 500,000 euros gross per month, or even goalkeeper Lopes (400,000) will no longer be at the club. Be careful, however, the drop will have to be significant so that the National Directorate of Control and Management (DNCG) does not analyze the OL accounts in the same way as John Textor.
Because at this moment T, it is obvious that the financial policeman of French football and the American businessman do not share the same analysis of the accounts…
