The executive president of Lyon, Santiago Cucci, refuted the idea of a sporting crisis but evoked a project which takes a little time to start for non-sporting reasons, Sunday after the defeat of OL against PSG ( 4-1) at Groupama stadium in the match of the 4th day of Ligue 1.
Olympique Lyonnais is 18th and last in the standings, a first since the first day of the 1995-1996 season.
“We are in the hard but I do not believe that there is a sporting crisis it is just that the project takes a little time to start for many reasons and non-sporting subjects that we have managed. That’s not an excuse. This week was still a circus. We talked about a lot of things, but not necessarily sports,” Mr. Cucci told the press.
“There was a custom of not talking on game day for 36 years and yet that’s what happened this morning. You have to have a little decency and move forward for the club project, ”he added in reference to the intervention, in the Téléfoot program, of the former president and majority shareholder, Jean-Michel Aulas.
For Santiago Cucci, “the site is up to what we thought all the same”.
“It has been three years out of four that OL have not been European. There are bound to be consequences. And when you want to resume a club project with European ambitions, it doesn’t happen in six weeks, “he explained.
“We are moving forward and we will improve to continue and wear this top jersey in the championship,” Santiago Cucci said again.
“The supporters reacted but they are right. They are frustrated and I am. It’s normal that they demand that we fight for the crest. Our project is built on the long term and on the training center. When you leave the center it is not to stay two years in the club. We stay four, five years, we are proud of the jersey and afterwards, without problem, we will have a European career ”, underlined the leader, without mentioning the name of Bradley Barcola, transferred Thursday to PSG for 45 M EUR.
“It will take a bit of time and yet we don’t have any. The subject of the day is not Laurent Blanc and its future but rather what are we going to do in the future. He is not solely responsible. It’s not him who plays, ”he concluded.