Before a window of changes that will have to be worked on well, Olympique Lyonnais is moving forward with its internal restructuring. In addition to the replacement of Vincent Ponsot, who has joined the OL women’s team, as announced several weeks ago, there will be a fresh start with Santiago Cucci, the interim general manager appointed by John Textor when the club is acquired. He had taken over this summer as interim CEO following the departure of Jean-Michel Aulas, but had yet to convince a successor. Finally, as had already been planned, John Textor appointed Laurent Prud’homme as the club’s new general manager.
In his role, “Laurent will be responsible for directing and managing all day-to-day operations of Olympique Lyonnais, reporting directly to me. Although the final decisions in football matters will depend on me, thanks to your active contribution, football Olympique Lyonnais’ reserve team (including its coach/director and long-term sporting director) will report directly to Laurent. He will be the OL’s main representative to governmental, public, administrative and sporting government, such as the LFP, UEFA, local elected officials and the French government. government,” the U. S. businessman’s website explains.