He had been on an ejection seat for weeks, Jean-Michel Aulas ended up pressing the button. Dutchman Peter Bosz is no longer the coach of Olympique Lyonnais. According the team Sunday, a big name in football should replace him on the bench of the Rhodaniens, Laurent Blanc.
Bosz arrived in Lyon in 2001, did not survive the draw conceded Friday at home against Toulouse (1-1). Another poor performance Lyon four defeats in a row. This Sunday morning, OL are in 7th place in Ligue 1, 12 points behind PSG. Friday evening, after the match, Alexandre Lacazette, captain of the team, so one of the leaders of the Lyon locker room had sulphated his coach taking the pretext of replacing center-forward Moussa Dembélé just after the Toulouse equalizer in the 67th minute.
A declaration in the form of a verdict of incompetence: “The coach made his choices, he had his reasons. We are obliged, in quotation marks, to respect his choices. But I, who am a basic striker, I do not always understand when a center forward comes out when we are forced to score. And to mean cruelly that Bosz was not doing the job and had lost the confidence of his players: “Personally, it’s clear, I know what he wants. Afterwards, I can’t speak on behalf of each player, I’m not in their head. But in any case, when I see tonight’s game, I don’t think everything is clear from everyone and that’s what’s unfortunate. A real tackle to the carotid artery.
Despite the disappointment of an 8th place last season, Bosz has long been supported by the management of OL, who had set him a goal for this new season, not revealed publicly, but which should see OL aim for the podium. at the end of the season.
Laurent Blanc was part of the very short list of now potential ex-successors to Bosz with Rémi Garde, former OL captain who was on the OL bench between 2011 and 2014. Free since his dismissal from Al-Raayan (Qatar) February 13, the 1998 world champion, coached Girondes de Bordeaux (2007-2010), the France team (2010-2012) and PSG (2013-2016). He had gone into exile in Qatar in 2020. In the meantime, he had been announced more or less close to Inter Milan, AS Roma, Manchester United and even the American selection. And from OL who almost brought him out of his semi-retirement in 2019. He would have seen himself there on the bench but the club had preferred Rudi Garcia to him. It was only a postponed match.