Lyon (AFP)

While Jean-Michel Aulas wanted to have completed the "departures" files this Friday, Memphis Depay, Houssem Aouar, Moussa Dembélé or Jeff Reine-Adelaïde are still part of the workforce of Olympique Lyonnais which receives Marseille on Sunday in the shock of the 6th day.

OL seem to have their own calendar for the transfer window, which officially ends Monday at midnight across Europe.

Four players, Memphis Depay, Houssem Aouar, Moussa Dembélé or Jeff Reine-Adelaïde, injured and forfeited for the duel against OM, want to sail towards new horizons and would arouse certain interest for several weeks, but none of these files have has been resolved.

"For the moment, they belong to OL, so they are available for Sunday. Jean-Michel Aulas had said that the limit was Friday midnight. After, in the same press conference, he also said Saturday morning", OL coach Rudi Garcia recalled at a press conference.

"I'm waiting for news from my leaders to know who I can summon or not tomorrow (Saturday) after training. And training is late (5:00 pm)," he admitted.

Before making an appointment on October 5, at the end of the transfer window: "We will know more on Monday evening", he admitted.

While his team has only collected six points in five matches and is in a worrying 11th place, the OL coach especially wants his players, those who could start in the lead, to be focused on the 6th day of L1 .

- "You have to ask Juninho" -

"We must not be disturbed by uncertainties. We are preparing to beat Marseille," he insisted.

As negotiations can obviously come to a head in the final hours of the transfer market, Garcia is sailing on sight through this troubled time.

In the departures department as for the arrivals department.

Does he expect, by Monday evening, other players than the Brazilian Lucas Paqueta, who arrived this week in Lyon from AC Milan against 20 million euros and who should be part of the group to face OM? ?

"You have to ask Juninho and my leaders. I have no idea about that. It is true that we have to rebalance the workforce but as long as we do not know who is leaving ..." Garcia said, throwing the buck to management.

Young Uruguayan striker (18) Facundo Pellistri of Penarol Montevideo is due at the end of the week.

The coach seemed all the more annoyed as the credit gained from reaching the Champions League semi-finals in August has since largely crumbled among supporters and observers.

- A place for Paqueta -

To the point that the laborious start to the season in L1 could cost him his job and that his departure is envisaged at the end of his contract, on June 30.

"This is a question to ask my managers. Me, I do not ask myself this question, obviously. I give the best, with my players, I try to find solutions so that we are more realistic in front of the goal. I don't have time to waste with these things, ”he swept away.

He has to make room for Paqueta, while Reine-Adelaïde and Aouar, who play in the same vein, are still there.

"It is important to find your best position. He has worked with three different coaches at AC Milan. I am not sure he is a player to be off-set. I think he needs to be put on. at the heart of the game. He can play torchbearer in a three-way environment or playmaker depending on the system, "Garcia said.

For its workforce as for its system of play, Garcia will see much more clearly after Monday midnight.

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