Currently 7th in Ligue 1 four days before the end of the championship, Olympique Lyonnais will still have to wait before returning to the Champions League, four years after its last participation. The new owner John Textor, whose business plan includes an annual qualification for the C1, will therefore have to find elsewhere the money that will allow him to pass serenely before the DNCG, the financial gendarme of French professional football.

According to RMC Sport, the American, also CEO "interim" after the ouster of Jean-Michel Aulas, must find some 130 million euros. How? By selling players of course, like Malo Gusto, sold for 30 million euros (not counting bonuses) this winter to Chelsea, who loaned the right-back in the wake to his training club for the rest of the season.

Scratching pennies everywhere

But other financial income will be needed and according to the same source, the sale of 52% of the shares of the women's section should bring in about 50 million euros. An IPO of Eagle foot, which associates the "family of clubs" (according to Textor) composed of Lyon, Botafogo (Brazilian D1), Crystal Palace (Premier League) and Molenbeek (Belgian D2), is also envisaged.



The DNCG will look at all these operations with a very interested eye.

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