For several weeks, the clubs have been working on the conditions for a resumption of competition on June 17, with a view to completing July 25 the most chaotic exercise in their recent history. But Ligue 1 suffered a brutal stop on Tuesday, facing the coronavirus epidemic: Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has shattered hopes of a summer of football, even behind closed doors. In the evening, the President of the Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët also marked the "definitive" end of the season in Ligue 1, but also in Ligue 2, in National and in the first female division , pending the final decision of the Professional Football League (LFP).
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"Do everything to find an alternative solution"
But against the current, the president of Lyon Jean-Michel Aulas hammered him to AFP that it was necessary "to do everything to find an alternative solution" allowing to end the financial year 2019-20, explaining not to have "a also final reading "of government announcements.
"We have to look at whether it is economically valid and especially if UEFA accepts it," points out the man whose club was 7th in Ligue 1 when the championship was interrupted. "UEFA wants the competitions to end. They would have liked the championships to end at the beginning of August, but given the French State's decision, I think we should discuss with them because there is surely the possibility to postpone the start of the next season until 15 September and allow UEFA to make decisions in terms of (European) qualifications for the following season. "
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"As the championship is not over, I think that everything must be done to find an alternative solution, either by playing a certain number of play-offs during the month of August, or by pushing back until on September 15 the start of the championship ", concludes Jean-Michel Aulas. "It is more realistic than the solution (of) Jean-Pierre Rivère (end the season in autumn, editor's note) which was not approved by UEFA.