The time is serious for OL. While the Empire of John Textor vacillates on all sides – in England, including where Eagle Football Holdings is ordered to update its accounts under penalty of radiation severely impacting the Crystal Palace club – now the Gones, already in the crosshairs of the National Directorate of Management Control (DNCG), must deal with the threats of UEFA.
Concretely, according to information from the Team this Thursday, the Club Financial Control body (ICFC), guaranteeing compliance with the financial fair play by the clubs committed to UEFA stamped competitions, offers OL a negotiated agreement providing heavy sanctions. Otherwise the Lyonnais risk the pure and simple exclusion of the European scene.
Without being able to reassure the continental body about the state of its finances, the Rhone club, paradoxically, will have to pay a heavy fine if he wishes to align in the Champions League, Europa League or League Conference in the next seasons. “It is a question of a fine undoubtedly exceeding the ten millions of euros and probably of additional measures, such as a supervision of its payroll or even a control of its transfers,” notes the aforementioned sports daily.
OL already warned this winter
Still according to L'Equipe, John Textor, who attended the semi-final Return of C1 on Wednesday evening between PSG and Arsenal, then invited by a Nasser al-Khelaïfi with whom relations were clearly warmed, had previously spent his day at the headquarters of UEFA, Switzerland, in order to meet the officials of the ICFC. Potentially to get a new stay.
Last December, UEFA had already sounded the alarm, judging that “the 2024 financial statements of Olympique Lyonnais did not respect the fundamental principle of the continuity of exploitation”. Threatened with exclusion from the Europa League, OL had been spared in extremis but ordered to settle its accounting situation as quickly as possible. However, since then, the Gones have in debt even more if we are to believe the half -yearly financial report published on March 31.
