While Lyon tries to avoid disappearance, his former boss is preparing a promising business … thousands of kilometers.
While Olympique Lyonnais is fighting for its financial survival in front of the DNCG, John Textor already seems to be turned towards other horizons. Far from the Rhône, the American businessman develops new partnerships… and signs a several million euros deal with Nottingham Forest.
The business continues for Textor
It only took American days to bounce elsewhere, while Lyon sinks into an unprecedented crisis. According to several concordant Brazilian sources, Botafogo is preparing to sell two of his talents, Igor Jesus and Jair Cunha, to Nottingham Forest for an overall amount estimated at 25 million euros. An operation that relaunches the affairs of the Eagle Football network, in which OL is still involved. The economic rights of these players are indeed partially held by the Lyon club.
Meanwhile, the Rhone club plays its survival before the DNCG appeal committee. July 10,
He will have to prove that he has 200 million euros to hope to stay in Ligue 1. A requirement that John Textor did not want to face. Obvious from the organization chart, he left Michele Kang on the front line. However, it was he who led OL for two and a half years, accumulating debts and failures. Today, he seems to have turned the page without even turning around.
Training, transfers, millions: Textor has shot the OL page
OL left drifting
The most worrying in this case is that John Textor always has people who blindly trust him. He is now associated with Evangelos Marinakis, owner of Nottingham Forest, in a new training project jointly in Brazil. Their objective: to invest in Botafogo and create a pipeline of talents between South America and Europe. An ambitious plan, far from the current concerns of OL … which the American nevertheless left on the edge of the abyss.
As OL tries to survive, its former boss built elsewhere. John Textor, who promised Monts et Merveilles in Lyon, seems today to have found a more fertile ground. But at what price for the club he abandoned?
