OL did not pass the first round in front of the DNCG, but John Textor fully assumes the change of course of the Rhone club, which no longer wants to live solely from the sales of its best players.
For the first time in a very long time, Olympique Lyonnais did not pass the first pitfall of the DNCG. The change of owner during the season explains these difficulties, and John Textor will now have to provide guarantees on certain points to see his new budget be approved by the financial policeman of French football. A half-hearted decision which would have annoyed the American businessman according to the media present on the spot, since John Textor was of course in Paris to defend his case. Proof all the same that he takes the OL situation seriously. But if the Rhone club has not seen its budget approved, it is also due to financial upheavals which are not all necessarily bad. Indeed, Jean-Michel Aulas had budgeted for a big sale at the end of the season to balance the accounts, with tens of millions of euros to recover.
Aulas’ strategy forgotten
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It is in this sense that the departure of Castello Lukeba, followed by Leipzig for an expected transfer of around 30 million euros, was anticipated before this weekend. But for the moment, the file is put on stand-by simply because the American owner does not necessarily rely on sales to present a budget that meets the requirements of the DNCG. Le Progrès affirms this Thursday, John Textor has made no promise to sell major players in his reworked budget, which means that OL have the guarantees in their new organization to be financially approved, without having the knife under their belt. the throat in terms of big starts. This could change the game, and demonstrate that the sale of the best players is no longer necessarily the number 1 lever for the accounts, which necessarily had the gift of annoying the supporters seeing the young people leaving the training center in stride. of their outburst in general. It remains to be seen whether this strategy will survive the whole of the summer, but the idea is to try to leave next season without necessarily weakening the team.
