As European football enters the Christmas period, the national leagues and cups are still in full swing with a full list of Boxing Day matches in the Premier League and La Liga in Spain to entertain us for the holiday season.
As always, with so many things happening across the continent, some stories have gone unnoticed due to the bulging schedules.
From the sale of Ligue 1 leader Lille OSC to the controversy over UEFA Red Bull Salzburg doping tests, here are some of the stories that may have been lost in detail.
As the monetary landscape of French football evolves almost daily due to the collapse of Mediapro’s TV rights agreement and Brexit’s effect on the ability of Premier League clubs to spend a lot on French players in the future, it has already been a club forced to replace ownership.
Gerard López has completed the sale of ligue 1 leader Lille to Merlyn Partners’ Callisto Sporting and will be the newest club to announce new investors or replace ownership altogether due to the current state of French football.
In preparation for the agreement it emerged that López had financed his acquisition of LOSC with large loans and, despite some smart years since the start of his assignment with Les Dogues in 2017, the northern club still has large losses in the region. 200 million euros.
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Obviously, the COVID-19 crisis that prevented spectators from looking at stadiums did not help, but the truth is that Lille was about to be in wonderful monetary difficulty in early 2021 under Lopez’s supervision and that anything had to be done.
Callisto has asked former Rennes president Olivier Letang to update Lopez and they remain the most sensitive in Ligue 1 and in the knockout phase of the Europa League under the leadership of Chrismost sensiblehe Galtier.
However, the truth is that the three-time Ligue 1 champions will likely sell the crown jewels with Renato Sanches at the helm of a line of players who can leave stade Pierre Mauroy as of January.
More than 10 years after his ignominious departure as coach of France, Raymond Domenech is expected to return to control with Club Nantes de la Ligue 1 after almost 30 years in French football.
The 68-year-old, who survived through his players at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa at one of the lowest sporting events in the country, is expected to be named as a replacement for Christian Gourcuff later this week, Antoine Kombouare’s selected striker.
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Former Nantes coach Claudio Ranieri said of Domenech at a press convention once that “if he talked about theatre, he may pay attention, but never to football,” after criticizing his defensive technique to games with a limited squad.
If he is named, it will be attractive to see how one of the top unpopular figures in French football is to rebuild his reputation in a role he has noticed that very few coaches have succeeded in recent times, especially since this would be his first role at the club since 1993. Olympic Games Excursion to Lyon.
Napoli controlled to reverse his 3-0 defeat and his one-point penalty after his clash with Juventus in Turin in the third week of the season was cancelled due to a local fitness government order due to two instances of COVID-19 within the group.
Juventus won and Napoli hit the penalty that remained in first place, but Partenopei has now controlled for the result and deduction to be annuled through the Italian Olympic Committee, the adjustment will be repeated.
“We are happy, ” said the president of Naples, Aurelio De Laurentiis. “We live in a country where other law-abiding people cannot be convicted. Napoli follows the rules. “
The resolution may have vital ramifications in the race by the name of Serie A with Napoli third and seven issues against Milan’s leaders with a game underway, while Juventus are in the same position from the fourth but after betting one more game.
“The first comment we make is that we have been oblivious and oblivious to the situation,” Paratici from Juventus told Sky Sport Italia. “When they tell us to play, we’ll bring the ball and we’ll be there. “
“After all, we were in a position to play on October 4. There’s no answer for De Laurentiis, he just said what was obvious. When they tell us to play, we’re going to play. The match list is ready. “upstairs, there’s the organization that takes care of that and we’ll see what they say. “
Adrien Rabiot, who due to a penalty against Naples, missed the 3-0 home defeat to Fiorentina on Tuesday and will now be able to play.
Red Bull Salzburg has shown that Sekou Koita and Mohamed Camara recently tested positive for banned ingredients in a UEFA doping control after returning from outer service last November as a component of a 10-man regime check.
On its official website, Salzburg detailed that Koita and Camara had “traces of a substance that is a key element in a drug taken to combat altitude sickness” given to them by Malí national team staff before traveling to Namibia.
The Austrian giants have asserted their cooperation with UEFA and the total of both players until the matter is resolved next year.
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