This July 9, 2025 will be a date in the recent history of Olympique Lyonnais. Draded in Ligue 2 by the National Management Control Directorate (DNCG) on June 24, the Rhone club finally found the arguments to convince the financial gendarme of French football to return to its decision, and therefore to remain L1. This Wednesday, they were new to compose the Lyon delegation responsible for defending themselves at the FFF headquarters. John Textor was obviously not part of it, the American having resigned from his functions of club president in recent days.
Even if the news is good today, no one will forget the sinister trace left by the boss of Eagle in the capital of Gaul. And even less Jean-Michel Aulas, who had sold him the club in 2022. In an interview with Progressthe historic boss of OL – reassured after the maintenance of OL – said everything he thought of his successor. And he did not spare it. “I spent all Monday with Michele Kang. Some were pessimistic because the latest interventions by John Textor had been so negative. It lacked credibility. We found it with Michele Kang who did a fantastic job, who knew how to federate ”I declared Classrooms.
Aulas takes out the sulphate
He believes that without Michele Kang, the club would run “a great danger», And that he seriously risked the bankruptcy in the event of a descent in L2, like Bordeaux. In his speaking, Aulas also rejects the idea of having given up the club in an economic state worrying almost three years ago. “I was lent me the poor health of OL before Textor resumed. It was not true. The stadium was paid. It is expensive in maintenance, it's true, but I did not want to sell. Pathé and IDG wanted it, but when the operation was done, the stadium was reimbursed. But behind John's intervention, they refined the stadium which served as a guarantee. All the revenues that arrived were pledged to reimburse this funding. This is incredible what was done. In three years, it has been made the opposite of what has been done in 37 years »he plague.
Today, John Textor “Owes money to everyone”add aulas. As a reminder, the American had lent 450 million euros lent by the Investment Fund Ares, which could thus recover full control of the club in the event of non-reimbursement on the part of Textor. But obviously, keeping the club in the long term is not really in Ares' plans, as revealed The team In recent days. The next few weeks and next months should help us better know which management will take the club.
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