Jean-Michel Aulas under the “shock” after the demotion of OL in Ligue 2

The reactions begin to fall after the administrative demotion to Ligue 2 of Olympique Lyonnais by the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG). Meanwhile, Jean-Michel Aulas said on Tuesday evening that this announcement constituted “a shock. Furthermore, a terrible blow for all those who deeply love OL”, which he led from June 1987 to December 2022.

“For 36 years, I made sure that such a situation never could occur. For example, I gave everything to build a solid. respected, ambitious and healthy club financially, “added the former club president to his X account.

“Sadness”. “immense misunderstanding” – Jean-michel aulas under "shock" after

Aulas, who resumed the club in the second division in 1987 and led him to the successes of the 2000s, said he wishes “of all (his) heart that the call, and the guarantees that OL can bring – and especially those of John Textor and his associates within jean-michel aulas under “shock” after Eagle Football Holding – will allow us to return to this unprecedented situation”. “I do not yet have the expectations of the decision but today it is the sadness that dominates. an immense misunderstanding,” he adds.

The predecessor of John Textor at the head of OL refuses “to comment more at this stage out of respect for the institutions. in the restraint that the disappearance of Bernard Lacombe also imposes on me”, his former adviser and legendary OL player, who died a week ago at the age of 72, whose funeral is celebrated this Wednesday afternoon in Fontaines-sur-Saône.

For its part. in a press release published on its social networks, the group of Bad Gones, the most important association of OL supporters, called John Textor jean-michel aulas under “shock” after “to disappear from the Lyon landscape”.

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“Textor has never been. will never be the man of the situation,” continues the group, who describes him as “supporter of Botafogo”, the Brazilian club that the businessman also has. “We call on his many creditors to regain control. restore the keys to Olympique Lyonnais to someone who will respect our institution and wash the many clashes made to him.”