Two information to be remembered in the file between OL and the DNCG, the financial gendarme having made the decision to demote the Lyon club in Ligue 2: the next meeting is set for July 10 and the club now chaired by Michele Kang will have to find a huge sum of money to hope for the cancellation of the demotion and its maintenance in League 1. According to the team, we are talking about 200 million euros: 100 100 others to be guaranteed for the duration of next season.
But how will Michele Kang and Michael Gerlinger, new managing director, find this sum in a week? The question will haunt OL supporters. After the DNCG’s decision, ex-president John Textor announced appeal before a specialized federal commission. He then recalled that the OL parent company, Eagle, and its shareholders had brought 83 million euros in cash.
He announced that a voluntary departure plan would have reduced the club’s expense. The ends of the contracts or transfers of expensive players like Alexandre Lacazette, Nicolás Tagliafico, Anthony Lopes or Maxence Caqueret and Rayan Cherki have also reduced the payroll of around thirty million euros. Insufficient, however, for the DNCG.
The objective remains to bring the payroll to the tune of 75 million euros and the body could in the event of maintaining L1 impose a framework of wages. Also fell 19.5 million euros in compulsory purchase options for three loaned players.
By the hearing on appeal, the challenge is to bring together the missing money, put it in the right place and show white leg according to a source close to the file. The node of the problem would be in the distribution of sums in the accounts, in particular those from the Eagle Holding multi -ownership.
