Ligue 1: Grosso does not want to give Lyon a gift and demands between 1.5 and 2 million

He only managed seven games on the OL bench for a rather disastrous record with 1 victory, 2 draws and 4 defeats. But the Italian coach Fabio Grosso has obviously decided not to give a gift to his former club, the one in which he had shone as a player between 2007 and 2009. The 2006 world champion will also remain marked in his flesh by his fleeting return in Lyon with the attack on the bus in Marseille on October 29, an attack during which he almost lost an eye.

Laid off on November 30, Grosso, who has not digested his ouster, is still engaged in a dismissal procedure with the Lyon managers. And we don’t seem to be going for an amicable procedure. According to progress, the 46-year-old coach who was under contract until next June with members of his staff, his assistant Raffaele Longo, his two physical trainers Francesco Vaccariello and Vittorio Carello, and his analyst Mauro Carretta, wants to obtain financial compensation for the damage which he considers he has suffered. He would claim a sum of between 1.5 and 2 million euros.

Since then, Sage has turned things around

Since Grosso’s sidelining, Pierre Sage, former assistant to Habib Beye at Red Star and director of the OL training center, has allowed the club to turn things around. Its three consecutive victories before the break allowed Lyon to leave the red zone for the first time this season.

As long as Grosso’s case is not officially resolved, Sage cannot be considered as a temporary worker even if he has a good chance of finishing the season on the bench. “I can just tell you that I will be at Olympique Lyonnais but in what role? I don’t know,” he recently confided about his future after the break.