After almost 36 years in the Lyon presidential chair, Jean-Michel Aulas will soon vacate it to leave the club to the Americans. French football had its share of longer ‘regimes’. The most famous (although coaching one) was Guy Roux who sat on the bench of Auxerre for 44 years. As far as the executives and club officials go, virtually no one comes close to Aulas. One of the most famous officials in the world of sports, the creator of modern Lyon, decided to retire due to disagreements with the new owners (they took over the majority of the shares before the end of December) and the resistance shown at times when he was expected to reform the existing structure, especially the part related to bringing in reinforcements. All aside, kudos to Eagle Football Holding, but what people from the United States get their hands on (look at Chelsea, for example) usually ends in disaster. Juninho Pernambucano, Sidney Govou, Alexandre Lacazette, Anthony Revelier, Bafetimbi Gomis, Hugo Lloris and other great aces have made a name for themselves among the Lions, all during Aulas’ tenure. Don’t forget a gem from their academy such as Karim Benzema.##NAJAVA_MECA_7234444##As the president of Eagle Football Holland, John Textor wants something different, he wants to transform the sports sector of the club, and that’s where the ties snapped with the 74-year-old first man of Lyon. When Textor came to the club at the end of 2022, he agreed with Jean-Michel that the latter would remain president for another three years, during which time he would carry out a “revolution,” however, this did not happen, due to Aulas’ resistance, the American decided to ‘clean things up.’ That’s why nobody interprets his sudden visit to the city during the previous days and his presence at the match with Montpellier (from 1-4 to 5-4) as accidental. L’Equipe assures that during the occasion it was confirmed that Jean-Michel Aulas will retire and that he is only waiting for an official announcement confirming that information.Eagle Football Holding plans to form a Player Transfer Department (whatever that means) modeled on those where it also has majority ownership (Crystal Palace in England, Antwerp in Belgium, Botafogo in Brazil). Jean-Michel Aulas may be old-fashioned for some, but he has shown that he knows his business without innovation, and that’s why he didn’t support it. When he realized that the Americans were planning to depose him, he decided to resign and thus forestall them.Talented and inconsistent – Houssem Aouar is the perfect Roma playerHe won’t regret it much. He will receive 10,000,000 euros in the name of severance pay that he did not stay until 2025, as planned and he is also aimed to be the president of the future women’s First League. By the way, women’s football is increasingly popular in Europe.If nothing else, he leaves a ‘healthy’ club to the Americans. Recognizable. Maybe in a result crisis next to such a ‘violent’ (on and off the field) Paris Saint-Germain, but it should be remembered that he took over it in the summer of 1987, when the club was in the second division, and raised it to the status of one of the best in the country. With him at the helm, seven league titles were won in a row (from 2002 to 2008), the modern Groupama stadium was built where the iconic Stade de Gerland was, Lyon became a reference point, not only in the local and national frameworks but also in Europe.Miraculous Lacazette scores four for a heroic comeback and a 5-4 win against Montpellier
