Guillaume Marion, media365: published on Thursday 04 September 2025 at 11:35 p.m.
Sports Director of Lyon for a little less than a year, David Friio recently returned to this period and notably denounced the management of the Rhone club by John Textor.
For the past few weeks, John Textor has now been very, very far from Lyon. And that, to the delight of club supporters. Indeed, while the latter feared the worst for their heart club, a time threatened with relegation by the DNCG, the American took a step back and left Michele Kang to take power among the Gones. In recent days, when Jean-Michel Aulas has rented the merits of the latter, a former Rhone club formerly denounced OL management by Textor. Sports director of Lyon from December 2023 to September 2024, David Frioo returned to this hectic experience. “I arrived at OL in a very particular context. I arrived in December 2023, the club was last with seven points in a catastrophic situation. The club was doomed to statistical relegation, “said the latter.
Friio denounces “the drifts of the multi -ownership”
“The owner had no other choice, he had to set up a structure with a sports director and a recruitment unit which could work relatively freely on the transfer window that followed, that of January. There, there was an alchemy with the players who arrived, with a fantastic rise from last to 6th place. It was the spectacular and positive side. But afterwards, things were a little bit, later declared Friio on Wednesday during the program “Late Football Club” on Canal+. I will not go into details. Summer was complicated. And we had to discuss with the club at the end of this transfer window because the drifts of the multi -ownership were too much. From now on, with Kang at its head, OL has experienced a much more peaceful end of summer and is currently equal to Paris Saint-Germain after three days of League 1. to the players of Paulo Fonseca to confirm this in the coming weeks.
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