One week before the OL’s passage before the DNCG appeal commission, the former historic president of Olympique Lyonnais, Jean-Michel Aulas, said this Thursday that he had started to help the club so that he avoids relegation in Ligue 2.
“My heart was of infinite sadness.” Very difficult early summer for Jean-Michel Aulas. After the disappearance of Bernard Lacombe, the former president of Olympique Lyonnais did not expect to see Olympique Lyonnais, the club he led from Ligue 2 to peaks in the 2000s, administratively downgraded in Ligue 2.. “I had inquired the day before the people who passed to the DNCG and they had told me that the answer was given to me. in the heart. “
It is an understatement to say that he had trouble digesting the decision taken by the DNCG last week. “Olympique Lyonnais is in a situation which is not acceptable in terms of French football” regrets JMA who sees a good eye the creation of the LFP channel. “It is impossible that Lyon is not in this dynamic,” continues Aulas.
Aulas will meet Michele Kang Monday
While OL will play its future next Thursday before the DNCG appeal commission, Jean-Michel Aulas does not want to drop his old club: “I will help, and I started to do so, as part of my knowledge and not my responsibilities. As vice-president of the Federation I must be as impartial as possible.” And to continue: “I met people from Olympique Lyonnais, I will meet Ms. Kang (new club president) next Monday to know all the ingredients. There is a strong expectation.”
“A number of people who know the file perfectly well will provide solutions”
He trusted the new OL fort ticket, Michele Kang-Michael Gerlinger, appointed president and managing director of OL, to save Olympique Lyonnais. “We are going to do everything so that OL can not stay where it is today. It is true that the test is difficult. It will be necessary that Michele Kang is extremely relevant and I know that it is. I feel very motivated. We must reverse the decision. The expectations are known (the DNCG claims 100 million euros on the account of the club plus 100 million guarantees, editor’s note). You have to find a solution.
