For the second year in a row, OL will not play in the European Cup next season and this will inevitably impact John Textor’s transfer window.
Seventh in Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais has long hoped for a comeback in the top 5 of the championship in order to snatch at least a qualification in the Conference League. This was not the case since OL finished behind Rennes, Lille or even Monaco. For the second year in a row, the Rhone club will not play in any European Cup next season.
Sidney Govou trembles for OL
A huge blow for the supporters, who are preparing for a turbulent transfer window for John Textor’s first summer. Transfers are expected, both in the direction of arrivals and departures. But in the columns of Progress, former Lyon striker Sidney Govou expressed his fears about the Gones transfer window. Because for the Canal + consultant, the absence of the European Cup will inevitably have a very negative impact on OL’s upcoming transfer window.
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“It’s another failed and disturbing season, because I had trouble seeing where we were going, on the pitch, but even more so off the pitch. You can tell me what you want, but OL need to play in Europe every year, and there we are going to do without it two years in a row. We are in a spiral, recruiting will be complicated, we will have to sell one or two important players, manage all loan returns. I’m afraid we’ve entered a kind of soft underbelly for a few years” analyzed Sidney Govou, for whom John Textor and the future managers of the transfer window of Olympique Lyonnais will automatically encounter great difficulties this summer due to the non-qualification of Gones in the European Cup. Sidney Govou fears in particular that important players of Laurent Blanc will be sacrificed to bail out the coffers, whether Rayan Cherki or Castello Lukeba for example.
