Paris (AFP)
The idea of the Lyonnais leader Jean-Michel Aulas "to cancel" the current season if Ligue 1 cannot resume because of the coronavirus is "indecent", accuses in the JDD the Marseilles president Jacques-Henri Eyraud, denouncing " the obscenity (of) an opportunistic proposition. "
If the health crisis continues in the coming weeks, "the most logical would be to say: + we cancel everything and we start again on the situation at the start of the season +", launched the boss of OL Friday in the columns of the newspaper The world.
A "white season" would allow Lyon, far from European places ten days before the end of the championship, to be qualified for the next Champions League, by virtue of its second place acquired at the end of last season.
"We know the obsessive will of Jean-Michel Aulas to defend OL by all means. But the string is a little big this time. Is it really to love and respect football when, without the slightest consultation, we suggest to deny the 28 days of championship already disputed? "writes Eyraud in a forum posted by the JDD on Saturday evening.
"When the fever has subsided, Jean-Michel Aulas will see the obscenity of his opportunist proposal. Should we dissolve them in the selfishness of the one whose only compass is his participation in the Champions League?" OM.
Eyraud's office is not isolated. Saturday, Aulas suffered a shootout from all of French football.
"If unfortunately the championship were to stop definitively, it would seem to me sportingly fair that the classification is ratified on the evening of the last day played (...)", reacted the president of Rennes, Jacques Delanoë, in a press release.
Castigating an "indecent" statement, the Breton leader noted that the decision belonged whatever happened "in a collegial manner to all the competitors".
"Football is solidarity between the forty clubs (of L1 and L2, note) and all the players in football. These words are only his," had tackled LFP president Nathalie Boy earlier de la Tour, on BeIN Sports.
Saturday early in the evening, Aulas reminded Canal + that he "obviously" wanted to end the current exercise. "I did not completely ignore the opportunity to finish the championship. The question was what would happen if the championship was not finished," he defended himself.
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