It is not only the DNCG which is interested in the accounts of Olympique Lyonnais, since UEFA has decided to monitor the finances of John Textor's club with the threat of a sanction.
While Lyon is doing better sportingly, the sky has darkened since the DNCG announced several possible sanctions for OL due to the financial situation of the Rhone team and Eagle Football Group. This Saturday, while Pierre Sage's team plays in Reims, The Team announces that the Club Financial Control Body (ICFC) has opened a surveillance procedure and UEFA emissaries even came this week to the capital of Gaul to check some files. A visit confirmed by Lyon leaders to the sports daily. This is not the first time that the ICFC is interested in a French club, and PSG, OM and even Monaco have been subject to controls, and even large fines for breaches of financial rules.
OL risks big against the European body
According to Etienne Moatti, no sanction has been decided at this stage of the operation launched by the Club Financial Control Body, but UEFA did not wait for the decision of the DNCG to look into the file of Olympique Lyonnais and John Textor. “ The European body has not been reassured by OL's situation for a while. And she will be very careful about the guarantees that must be given to her », Specifies the journalist from L’Equipe.
It is true that with a debt approaching 500 million euros, and only promises that everything will get better quickly, John Textor is not sending the right signals to the various authorities responsible for controlling football clubs. The American owner of Olympique Lyonnais is now expected with real guarantees otherwise Les Gones supporters will experience a real nightmare.
