A new face will join Olympique Lyonnais. The club founded in the French town has a new leader.
The 2023-2024 season is on its way for Olympique Lyonnais. They climbed to 10th place in Ligue 1 with a good margin over the red zone, before hosting Stade de Reims on Saturday night as part of Matchday 27, Les Gones can look ahead with more serenity this final stretch and prepare with confidence for the big assembly of the moment.
Next Tuesday, Pierre Sage’s players will be looking for a place in the Coupe de France final against Valenciennes, at the Groupama stadium. By hosting a club from the north of Ligue 2 and close to relegation to the National League, the Rhône club is aware that it has no margin for error, on pain of provoking the anger of its fans and definitively tarnishing its balance sheet for the current season.
Behind the scenes, Lyon have announced the arrival of a new manager to their organisational chart. As announced by the newspaper L’Equipe, Michael Gerlinger has been appointed this Friday as director of football of Eagle Football, the holding company controlled through the American owner of OL. John Textor. A signing that considers Lyon directly but also all the clubs of the Eagle galaxy, adding the Brazilians of Botafogo, the English of Crystal Palace and the Belgians of Molenbeek.
Eagle Football has just announced, via press release, the appointment of Michael Gerlinger as Director of Timeshare ✅ Soccer pic. twitter. com/l9znS7ECCM
– Gones™ Area (@GonesArea) March 29, 2024
As explained on X, formerly Twitter, through L’Equipe journalist Hugo Guillemet, the former Bayern Munich coach “will be responsible for the football operations of all Eagle clubs, and will report directly to John Textor. It remains to be seen, more specifically, what repercussions the German’s appointment will have on the day-to-day running of Olympique Lyonnais?What impact will Michael Gerlinger have on the upcoming summer transfer window?To be continued in the coming weeks. . .
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