While Olympique Lyonnais formalized the dismissal of Fabio Grosso this Thursday, the departure of the Italian coach is not understood by everyone.
At this stage of the season, Olympique Lyonnais will soon have three times as many coaches as victories in Ligue 1. After dismissing Laurent Blanc, the management of the Rhone club decided to do the same with Fabio Grosso, two only months after the arrival of the Italian strategist. While Pierre Sage will take care of the interim and David Friio will announce the next OL coach in a few days, observers are commenting on John Textor’s decision to thank Grosso. Some people don’t understand it.
This is the case of former footballer Pierre Bouby. The channel consultant The Team explained why this Thursday. “ It should have been a good idea for Peter Bosz, it must have been a good idea to fire Laurent Blanc, it must also have been a good idea for Grosso. It tires me. I feel like we’re always harping on that ‘It’s the coach’s fault, it’s the coach’s fault‘. I feel like nothing is going right in this locker room. You can put a plot… I think they need more a physical or mental trainer, or a sophrologist to solve their problem because it’s in their head.“
No fighting. A bad sign?
For the observer who has already experienced struggles to avoid relegation, Fabio Grosso was therefore not responsible for the situation, or at least not the only one. “ We can clearly see that on the pitch, these are players who are capable of doing much better. The managers are not up to par and what shocks me even more is that it is Olympique Lyonnais. There are still important players in the locker room. It’s day 13, there’s only one victory and I’ve never heard of a fight in training yet.“
Surprising his interlocutors with these words, Pierre Bouby explained it. “ For me, this is quite revealing. So I’m not advocating fighting, but in the meantime, when things go badly in a locker room, you always have one, two or three who start to raise their voices and things start to spiral out of control. » No reaction from the locker room, according to the former US Orléans midfielder, and nothing to expect from the change of coach. “ The shock must be created each time there is a new coach. It never works. At some point, the club and the locker room have to question themselves. How do you expect the locker room to question itself if, every time there is a problem, we fire a coach?“
