A bottom place, only one victory in fourteen days and a negative goal difference of -16. The sad record of Olympique Lyonnais as the truce comes to an end saddens Grégory Coupet who played for Les Gones between 1997 and 2008. It also angers the former international. In an interview with Le Parisien, the 50-year-old former player does not hide his frustration when seeing the current state of the club, at all levels.
Coupet does not spare the locker room and a workforce which “scandalizes” him due to the “lack of rebellion” but the main culprit in his eyes remains John Textor, the new owner of the club in whom he does not trust to turn around the situation: “He scares me. Just look at what he did in Molenbeek: they went up with a staff and he fired everyone! I would tend to understand that he changes when things go wrong. But if he also does it when things go well…”
Believing that the return of Bruno Genesio to the bench could be a good solution even if Pierre Sage took over from the dismissed Fabio Grosso, Coupet does not seem to expect much from the arrival of Juninho in an advisory role. from the president: “He will come back as an advisor and will be in Lyon once a month… But in which big club do you see that? It’s just not possible. I have nothing against Juni but how can you offer a position like that? It’s already difficult to establish authority over the players…”