Olympique Lyonnais has gone through all emotions in less than twenty-four hours. On Monday, the Rhone club learned that FIFA forbade it to record new players due to a debt of 2,000 euros. This Tuesday, the sanction was lifted by the world's football body. It was the club itself that assured it. What are necessarily relieved.
The information was relayed by RMC who confirmed that OL was no longer on the list of clubs banned by FIFA. A list that currently has 1,200 recruitment clubs for recruitment. According to the media to a
“Negligence of payment occurred this winter concerning a training compensation to the former club of a player transferred by OL”.
Club officials would in fact have settled this balance and it was the latency time between sending and receiving the payment that made Lyon saw its name appear on the list of prohibited recruitment clubs. A good thing done and one less concern for the management of OL which has not ended with all its problems. Starting with its future passage in front of the DNCG.
OL and John Textor in front of the DNCG on June 24
It is on June 24 that the financial gendarme will deal with the case of Olympique Lyonnais by receiving in particular its president John Textor. The latter recently admitted to being in regular contact with the body so that it explains in detail everything that was criticized for OL and what it was necessary to do in the nails.
By then, Lyon remains under the threat of an administrative demotion in Ligue 2 pronounced last November. John Textor will have to present a solid file which will allow the DNCG to judge whether or not, Olympique Lyonnais presents the guarantees sufficient for a maintenance in League 1.. The supporters continue to cross their fingers.
