The information is barely believable, confirmed this Saturday, however by the management of OL. Without having transmitted in time the data required to the French Football Federation, the Lyon club cannot claim a possible registration for a competition organized by UEFA next season.
In other words, even if the men of Paulo Fonseca take down a ticket for Europe in fifteen days at the end of Ligue 1 – whether for the Champions League, the Europa League or the League Conference – an administrative error costs them for the time being a probable continental adventure. A blunder which corroborates the thesis of serious internal dissonances.
“” These questions will be the subject of several internal measures and a meticulous monitoring process has been put in place accordingly. We will quickly submit all the documents and information expected by the FFF and we make at its disposal for the full resolution of this file », Back OL that day in a press release sent to the France Press agency.
OL still under threat
According to the Rhodanian staff, this problem ”
technical Should be settled in the coming days. Optimism that prejudes the room for maneuver left by UEFA to the various national federations in charge of the process of obtaining European licenses. And this while the context is heavy, already, for Lyonnais.
At this stage of the season, OL remains in fact under an administrative demotion in Ligue 2 for breach of its budgetary obligations. A sanction pronounced as a precaution by the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG) on November 15 and which obliges John Textor to show white legs by June 30.
