The nearly quarter-century-old love story between Olympique Lyonnais and Anthony Lopes is about to end. While it had already been undermined since the start of the season and the sidelining of the 34-year-old goalkeeper, this one will end up in trouble since L'Equipe announces that the Portuguese should soon be commit for six months to FC Nantes with options for additional years depending on his performance. Already in contact with the Canaries last summer, the matter was ultimately unable to come to a conclusion.
Anthony Lopes very close to Nantes!
A reinforcement of experience for the Nantes residents in the race to maintain since Alban Lafont, replaced by Patrick Carlgren during the last matches, should pack up. It is also a long ordeal for Lopes, who spoke of this difficult time last September for the sports daily: “I am in the place I was given, which is to say none. I accept the situation as best I can, knowing that I have no other choice available to me. I am in the training group but not in the hierarchy, since I cannot apply to play. I didn't get any explanations. Since no one criticizes me for anything sportingly and for my involvement throughout the weeks, how can I understand it? If I had not been up to the task at the end of the Championship, given the stakes, I would have left the team well before. No one at the club can blame me for my involvement in training, I haven't missed any, I'm always there with a smile, never sulky when I could be, but my personal situation must not encroach on the collective. I have respect for the group and for the staff. I never thought that my end at OL would be this, I had imagined something else. But hey, that's how it is.“
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Olympique Lyonnais, in search of liquidity, is about to complete the departure of Anthony Lopes! The nearly quarter-century-old love story between Olympique Lyonnais and Anthony Lopes is about to end. While it had already been undermined since the start of the season and the sidelining of the 34-year-old goalkeeper, this one will end up in trouble since L'Equipe announces that the Portuguese should soon be commit for six months to FC Nantes with options for additional years depending on his performance.
