Marked by the rout of his team on Saturday at home against Montpellier (4-1) during the second day of Ligue 1, the coach of Lyon, Laurent Blanc, raised the question of his future.
To the journalist from the PrimeVideo broadcaster asking him what we could change, the technician replied: “Players but also the coach”. Later, in a press conference, Blanc did not hide that he could soon “be at the center of turbulence”. “There are already people who cut off my head a fortnight or three weeks ago. We can imagine now, with what is happening, ”he said.
After two outings, Lyon are 18th and last in Ligue 1 with zero points and a negative goal difference (-4). “You know Lyon’s situation well. It must be said. Of course we lost but at some point, when we don’t do things at the right time, or we do them late or not at all, in life we go through it and sometimes we pay for it. ‘addition. I will pay it, the bill, ”he continued.
“I am right in the pumps. I am not saying that I am responsible for nothing but I am not responsible for everything, ”assured the former national coach who always said he was waiting for August 31 and the end of the transfer window to set the objectives that the club can aim for.
But the outcome of the transfer market could also encourage him himself not to continue. “Since the start of the season, we’ve been trying to prepare well, but we’ve also had some bad luck. But when you don’t do the right things, the bad things accumulate. When you do the right things, all the good things add up. I also see a cause and effect relationship, ”said Laurent Blanc again.
“But when I say that we don’t do things, I’m not saying that against my management. I say that it is difficult because we had not anticipated our situation, ”insisted the OL coach, referring to the constraints of the DNCG, the French football management control body.
“I don’t think the idea is to develop young players. Yes, there will be opportunities for young people, as Lyon has always done with its high-performance training center for a long time. But each time OL have won titles, it’s not the young Lyonnais who won them. Yes, they participated but they were supervised by great players. I think that the guiding idea is there but we had not expected that the DNCG would prohibit us from recruitment”, he concluded.
