John Textor, the owner of Olympique Lyonnais, continues to clean up the organization chart of the club, last in Ligue 1.
His big company knows the crisis well. John Textor faces last place in the French Championship occupied by Olympique Lyonnais, after another defeat this season, conceded Sunday evening at home to Clermont Foot (1-2, 9th day of Ligue 1).
After having fired Laurent Blanc from his position as coach last month to place Fabio Grosso there, with so far no visible positive effect, the owner of OL dismissed Vincent Ponsot.
Small wave of departures
On Monday, we learned that the OL football director would be transferred at the end of the year to the women’s section, now the property of the new majority shareholder Michele Kang.
The French manager will occupy the position of General Director, or CEO (Chief Executive Officer) at OL women’s, as is the Anglo-Saxon custom.
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In recent weeks, recalled The Teamthe deputy general manager and general secretary, the marketing director and the financial director had left the Lyon club due to the desire of John Textor to erase the Jean-Michel Aulas era.
The sports media also indicates on Tuesday a probable successor to Vincent Ponsot, Michael Gerlinger, 50 years old. Former manager of Bayern Munich, the German speaks French because his wife is from Marseille.
