Lyon handed potential relegation and transfer ban

Haven’t read about this but what’s the reason?
 
Cheeky bid for Juninho Pernambucano?
 
Any good talents ?
They always seemed to have 2/3 promising young players.
 
Does anyone know if this is related to the issues with the tv deal or more a case of mismanagement?
 
Nab some players from the women's team too. Lyon are the most successful women's side so bring them over too with Cherki
 
thisisnottaken1 said:
feck me. Massive news. Two of France’s biggest clubs being relegated due to financial troubles in the same year
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Almost entirely because of PSG completely fecking up the entire league and making it a non-viable television product domestically while at the same time failing to establish themselves as anything beyond a laughingstock at a European level to the point where they lacked the ambition to retain the most marketable player in the world.

It's very depressing that the entire league has had to pay the penalty of PSG being run and bought by genuine fecking idiots who like to huff their own farts. State ownership is a plague on the sport and it needs to be banned post-haste.
 
Nothing dodgy going on anyway. Michele Kang who purchased 52% of the Women's teams, was already on the board of Eagle Football Holdings who own OL.

One of their other clubs, Botafogo have loans that Textor used to fund RWD Molenbeek.

Crystal Palace seem to have done the right thing by not giving Textor any real say on their club.
 
TheMagicFoolBus said:
Almost entirely because of PSG completely fecking up the entire league and making it a non-viable television product domestically while at the same time failing to establish themselves as anything beyond a laughingstock at a European level to the point where they lacked the ambition to retain the most marketable player in the world.

It's very depressing that the entire league has had to pay the penalty of PSG being run and bought by genuine fecking idiots who like to huff their own farts. State ownership is a plague on the sport and it needs to be banned post-haste.
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The rest of France must despise them. I was thinking when I heard the Bordeaux news whether there's ever been a precedent of the other clubs breaking away and starting fresh without the big bad wolf.
 
FrankDrebin said:
Any good talents ?
They always seemed to have 2/3 promising young players.
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Big fan of Maxence Caqueret after watching a few of their games last season. He's similar in profile to Mainoo so wouldn't be needed at this point.
 
Wasn’t that long ago that they were perennial champions in France. This is a pretty big deal for French football if it comes to pass. Could be more to follow, as it seems the whole division is experiencing solvency issues outside of PSG.
 
TheMagicFoolBus said:
Almost entirely because of PSG completely fecking up the entire league and making it a non-viable television product domestically while at the same time failing to establish themselves as anything beyond a laughingstock at a European level to the point where they lacked the ambition to retain the most marketable player in the world.

It's very depressing that the entire league has had to pay the penalty of PSG being run and bought by genuine fecking idiots who like to huff their own farts. State ownership is a plague on the sport and it needs to be banned post-haste.
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Yup. feck PSG. Thankfully the same hasn’t happened in the Premier League despite the dominance of Man City.
 
Lyon under Aulas were renowned for selling talent at an expensive clip, as well as being utterly dominant in France. This is huge.

Actually:

After establishing Lyon as a contender in French football, Aulas adopted a strategy which allowed the club to acquire many of the top players of other clubs in Ligue 1. After excelling at the club, the chairman would then sell the players for exorbitant fees to clubs abroad. His complex style of negotiating has led to the successful transfers of many former Lyon players such as Michael Essien, Mahamadou Diarra, Karim Benzema, Florent Malouda, Eric Abidal, and Tiago Mendes with all the players departing the club for transfer fees as low as €15 million (Tiago) and as high as €38 million (Essien). On the negative side, Aulas has been lambasted for, according to critics, running the club as if it were a business. The club currently operates on the European Stock Exchange under the name OL Groupe, initialed OLG.[7]

In April 2008, business magazine Forbes ranked Lyon as the thirteenth most valuable football team in the world. The magazine valued the club at $408 million (€368 m), excluding debt.[8] On 12 February 2009, accountants Deloitte released their annual Deloitte Football Money League. In the report, Lyon were rated in the twelfth spot, reportedly bringing in an annual revenue of €155.7 million for the 2007–08 season, which ranks among the world's best football clubs in terms of revenue.

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For those that don’t know.
 
FrankDrebin said:
Any good talents ?
They always seemed to have 2/3 promising young players.
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From checking their forums, Malick Fofana is by a long distance the one they're most upset about losing. They're basically unanimous in raving about his dribbling, defensive work-rate and maturity.

Cherki in second. Apparently their most talented player but questionable fitness/effort levels.

They absolutely hate Caqueret. Literally everyone. It's like the Rashford thread. They're fantasising about selling him to Forest or Everton for £8m.

They think Gift Orban and Nuamah are flops.

Really the only players they like are Fofana, Cherki, Matic, their goalkeeper Perri and Abner - a left-back who's started the last three games for Brazil.
 
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