This Wednesday, July 9, 2025 is a capital day for the future of Olympique Lyonnais.
Lovers of Olympique Lyonnais hold their breath. At the end of the day, this Wednesday, July 9, the Rhone club will be set on its fate. On June 24, theOL
was officially demoted in Ligue 2 after its passage before the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG).
Forced to provide immediate guarantees to the financial gendarme of French football by generating liquidity, OL called on to prepare a final passage before the body. It will take place in conditions very different from the previous ones.
OL: John Textor has set back.
Exit John Textor, the man with a high verb who had robbed the DNCG. Criticism with regard to French football from his first public speaking, the American businessman was never on the same wavelength as his interlocutors. On the form, with a frontal style that detonates in France. And especially on the bottom, since the American was based on his argument by wedging himself on the backtracks of his Eagle group, rather than those of OL.
The new OL strategy against the DNCG
The restructuring of the organization chart should appease relationships and streamline dialogue between the club and a DNCG renowned for its intransigence. Michele Kang and Michael Gerlinger took control after the removal of Textor. And they shine for the moment by their discretion. An austerity plan has started to leak and sales of the main market values of the workforce should multiply in the days to come.
So many elements that announce a period that is not very pleasing on the sporting level, but which would be likely to reassure the DNCG. If OL does not bring by sufficient guarantees and sees the body confirms its relegation this Wednesday, there will remain a final appeal: seize the CNOSF for conciliation. But the timing will be tight. The Lyonnais have already resumed training on Monday in a funny atmosphere, and without a few well -known heads. The 2025-26 season begins on August 15. Lyon is officially on the calendar unveiled by the LFP. It remains to be seen whether this important actor will still be in the casting at that time.
