I miss the good ol’ Juninho & Pjanic days
Is he aware of the calendar and the game coming ?
The other teams around Lyon know exactly they are in a relegation battle, Lyon should accept as fast as possible.
And fuck John Textor.
That’s exactly what Gonalons (former OL player now Clermont) said after the game, he said “we know we are in the relegation battle, Lyon players now need to accept it too”
We were supposed to bring in Julian Ward as Sporting Director, but somehow got Sven Mislintat instead.
Let us be united in this difficult time
For those young uns who might not know, this is pretty a pretty wild situation, considering the fact that Lyon won Ligue 1 7 years in a row from 2002 - 2008
And even then they’ve been a somewhat doesn’t team in the last few years, this is so weird
Botafogo is really the favorite child huh
Do Lyon miss Saint Ettiene so much that they want to join them in Ligue 2?
I don’t want to sound worrying, but it reminds me of Marcelino who said he wasn’t worried about OM two days before resigning…
Beyond that, he would do well to feel the sense of urgency!
What I don’t get is that this guy also owns Crystal Palace and yet they’re being ran quite well at the moment. How can you be so bad with one club but decent with the other?
He’s not running us, he’s just a part owner. I think parish is smart enough not to give to this guy too much control lol
“There is no risk of relegation”
Narrator: they were relegated
This dude owns, besides OL, Botafogo, Crystal Palace and the resurrected bones of Molenbeek.
One miss, three successes?
Oh god don’t say that
“There’s no such thing as jinxing”, he added
I mean, he’s
confidentdelusional, I’ll give him that.ajax and lyon really have stubborn people thats crazy
Ajax and Lyon are great case studies into why football has devolved into a broken sport masquerading as bad business. The elite aren’t the elite because they have some grand masters behind the scenes (some do, most don’t). Majority of football clubs are run exceptionally poorly. It’s a grand combination of luck, basic planning, staying the course and opportunity. Ajax wanted to make serious changes after last season and got someone who was regarded as a smart mind. Then he starts attempting to tear everything down so he could do favors for his buddies. John Textor bought Lyon and tried to run it like Clearlake did with Chelsea but without extreme investment. Their situation is exactly where Chelsea would be if it weren’t for ownership ceding control to the directors they hired.
So many bad transfers happen in football because of ego, ulterior motives, vested interests, favours, an absence of planning, arrogance, panic, injuries, doing transfers just to please a rabid fan base in an age where the transaction has quickly become more popular than the actual sport. But it’s made especially worse when the egos involved are too volatile and act like they know better because, well, they got in their position somehow so clearly they’re the geniuses and we don’t know more than them.
It’s why it always kills me when people idolize managers or sporting directors. As if they’re infallible human beings as opposed to flawed humans like the rest of us trying to do what their version of right is.
Sir, this is a wendys
Ehh I can’t speak for Lyon but this is not really a good assessment of what has happened with us. What is true however is that everything in football is volatile and fickle as hell. A player that’s great today is horrible tomorrow or the other way around and that goes for managers, sporting directors, clubs and even leagues all the same.
It’s thinking that ‘because you’re good today, you’ll be good tomorrow’ that is the real danger here. It’s behind our problems, it’s behind Lyon’s problems, hell, it’s the reason Serie A is not the best league in the world anymore.
Same thing for Lyon. Our problems aren’t new, we have been at different levels of shit for almost a decade, people were happy for Aulas selling eh club, and later being kicked.
Could you say the same about the really elite football managers players directors too?
Our situation has nothing to do with Textor tho. It’s Aulas.
Aulas only planned things as us being in CL. The COVID fucked us because our league stopped L1 while we were 7th. (we went in semi-final of CL beating Juve with CR7 and Man City with the same team) At that moment, we dont have money coming in, no CL, we’re fucked since.
Every year having to sell our best players, having incompetent people hired that have no clue what to do with the money we have (Ponsot, Cheyrou) and they bullied the only one that knew what to do and invested well (Juninho, he wasn’t perfect and did mistakes, but did many great things, the other two didn’t do half of what he did in a short time).
Then Aulas having to sell because some investors left. He sold us as soon as possible without caring of the future. Textor is a clown, but we’re in that position because of Aulas. I mean the good things (being known in europe, academy, stadium) but also the bad ones (being shit and having no future).
Don’t do it Lyon