The season of Ligue 1 definitively stopped, according to the advice of the government? "I'm not sure," said Jean-Michel Aulas in an interview with AFP Tuesday evening. The president of OL, currently 7th in L1 and not qualified for the next European Cup despite being in the 8th final of C1 and the final of the League Cup, poses against the current by advocating "an alternative solution ", For example in the form of" play-offs ".
đź’¬ "Those who absolutely want to stop the championship are those who are either in a position to play the European cups, or not to go down"
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What is your reaction after the declarations of the Prime Minister who advocates the end of professional competitions at least until August?
I have a reading, not different, but I think that the Prime Minister's words and prolonged by the exchanges we had with the Ministry of Sports go in the direction of a reprogramming of what had been proposed by the League (a resumption of the season mid-June, note). I understood that from the beginning of June we could resume training anyway. And given the fact that UEFA continues to finalize the matches of C3 and C1 over the month of August, I wonder if there is not an opportunity to find a format that would allow the championship to end in July , maybe August, and to make sure to stay in the spirit of what the League wanted to know, to finish the championship at all costs.
Have you already consulted with other Ligue 1 presidents?
There are several trends among presidents. Those who are currently in a position to be eligible in a classification which makes it possible to qualify the first for the European cups should not be allowed, I am thinking in particular of the second (OM) and third (Rennes) of the championship, imagine that it is a positive point to stop the championship compared to the current classification. This is why we have to think about all the hypotheses related to UEFA.
Is the idea of ​​ending the season in the fall and switching to a spring-summer championship still valid?
I had said that UEFA had to give the green light, but currently it is not the scenario it wants. UEFA wants to end the competitions. They would have liked the championships to end in early August, but given the decision of the French State, I think we should discuss with them because there is surely the possibility of postponing until September 15 the start of the next season and allow UEFA to make decisions in terms of (European) qualifications for the following season. The people interested in ensuring that their decision is the right one, obviously today are those who are qualified at time T. But since the championship is not over, I think that everything must be done to find a alternative solution, either by playing a number of play-offs during the month of August, or by postponing until September 15 the start of the championship.
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