This Friday evening, the DNCG, the financial policeman of professional football, announced that it had sanctioned Olympique Lyonnais. The club is subject to payroll control and a ban on recruiting until further notice. Furthermore, OL is demoted as a precautionary measure at the end of the current sporting season.
Clearly, this means that if John Textor, the president of OL, does not keep his promise to release the funds necessary for the club’s recovery, it will finish in Ligue 2 at the end of the current season, and this regardless of the ranking obtained in Ligue 1 in May.
Lyon leaders John Textor and Laurent Prud’homme were interviewed by the DNCG for more than three hours in Paris this Friday.
“We are not at all worried about our sustainability,” assures Textor
The American has three main channels in mind to replenish the finances of the Rhone club. He is counting first on the sale of his shares in Crystal Palace, as well as on the transfers of players from Botafogo (another club owned by Eagle Football Group, the parent company whose debts are estimated at 460 million euros). by the end of the year. Finally, at OL, he hopes to operate a large-scale transfer window in January.
“The local commissioners only looked at the French football club and did not consider the hundreds of millions of dollars that will come from different parts of our organization,” Textor declared earlier this Friday, before the DNCG verdict. . We are not at all worried about our sustainability. »
Textor is certainly more worried than he wants to let on. Indeed, a large part of his plan is suspended from the reduced window of the few weeks of the winter transfer window. The club’s American owner is expected to hold a press conference on Saturday morning.
