Active during the Mercatos of past seasons, Olympique Lyonnais is much more shy this summer. Driven in Ligue 2 by the DNCG before being drafted on appeal on July 9, the Rhone club was very late on its competitors.
Obliged to lower its payroll by 50%, OL must separate from players with the highest wages. Since the start of the summer transfer window, the seven -time champions of France has recorded no less than seven sales, without counting the free departure of Alexandre Lacazette.
To remain competitive, the club must still strengthen. However, he knows that he cannot afford follies. The recruitments of Ruben Kluivert and Afonso Moreira cost the Lyon management less than 6 million euros and it is in this momentum that OL must continue.
Arrivals expected at OL
At the end of the friendly match which opposed the Rhone club to Mallorca on Wednesday (won 4-0 by the Gones), the technical director of the club Matthieu Louis-Jean announced the color at the microphone of OL TV. “” Off -price players are over. We have to adapt to the budget level with the DNCG. We will try to position ourselves on players with high potential according to our needs. There will also be experienced players. We want to remain competitive. It is important for us to build a good team ” he said.
Matthieu Louis-Jean then said that new recruits should arrive soon, especially in the offensive sector: ” Players will still join us, especially in the offensive sector. Ruben Kluivert and Afonso Moreira, we have been following them for a while. We have recruited a Portuguese scout which takes care of Portugal and Spain (…) The offensive positions are the privileged positions on the next recruitments. In the middle too. We know that there is a lack of the world. The objective was to reduce the payroll and separate players (…) We will enter a third phase with recruitment ”. Some rumors evoke the possible arrivals of Pierre Lees-Melou (Stade Brestois) and Tyrler Morton (Liverpool FC). News that have enough to reassure Lyon supporters!
