Ol – Jean-Michel Aulas, an emotional farewell and a warning after the victory against Reims

But Jean-Michel Aulas saw his world stop on May 5, the moment chosen by John Textor to denounce the prior agreement and put an end to 36 years of presidency. This end that he did not choose, Aulas was nevertheless able to experience it this Saturday at Groupama Stadium.

Tears in the heart of the Bad Gones

It was a special evening, rich in emotions for him as for all the supporters present. Special because the stadium, his stadium at the back, was renamed in his name by the Ultras Lyonnais. Special because the two turns had prepared tifos worthy of the good man’s contribution to the Lyon club.

“Eternal respect for a great man from Lyon”, could we read in particular. Special because Aulas had decided to live part of the match with the Bad Gones and he couldn’t hold back his tears just after Alexandre Lacazette’s missile.

If he lived the second period in the official gallery, JMA ended up finding his supporters after the fact. Because he could not decently leave without a lap of honor, accompanied by his faithful, Bernard Lacombe and Sonny Anderson. Because he could not decently leave without repeating his love for this club, this family deep down for him, with its sometimes stormy relationships.

“You can’t know how I feel tonight, in front of the biggest group of supporters in France“, he first let go, in a chauvinism that resembles him. But it is ultimately in the final address to his supporters that Aulas delivered the most message: “If you want OL to rise to the roof of Europe, which has always been my project, be still demanding guys“.

A few minutes earlier, it was on Twitter that he had sent a form of warning to John Textor, whose outlines of the revolution are slow to become concrete. “My legacy will be preceded by no other testament than that of the history of this club which is more than a club, more than an institution, more than just a business. To those who will succeed me, we entrust them with a heritage of French football, which commits them“, he wrote. Difficult to make clearer.