- OL youths (still) arouse lust this summer, like striker Amine Gouiri (20), transferred to Nice, and left side Melvin Bard (19), who would please Bayern Munich .
- OL have also been confronted with the recent departure of defender Pierre Kalulu (20), who preferred to sign his first professional contract at AC Milan than in his training club.
- Jean-Michel Aulas assumes "an error" of the club about this versatile player who left for Italy at the end of his aspiring contract.
Jean-Michel Aulas can admit having been wrong on a file, including at the microphone of OL TV. This is the main lesson of his media release on Monday on his club's channel. This regret of JMA does not concern the recent transfer to Nice of Amine Gouiri (seven million euros), who never really had a chance in his training club (less than 300 minutes with the pro group in three years) . The Lyon president, however, returned to the departure this summer of defender Pierre Kalulu (20 years like Gouiri), who preferred to sign his first professional contract at AC Milan than at OL, where he was at the end of the aspiring contract .
It's good to recognize it, it's a good start.
Now we have to work to send a more positive message to the young people still there. The past seasons and the Kalulu / Gouiri symbols have done damage ... https://t.co/z6o2VnTOEb
"We lost it, probably because we made a mistake, it will serve for the future," admits Jean-Michel Aulas, who admits "not having seen this departure coming". He had tried to convince in extremis the versatile defender by leveraging the persuasiveness of Juninho but also of Tony Parker.
Kalulu passed even after Yanga-Mbiwa in Garcia's mind
"He had everything to probably succeed in Lyon," said the OL leader on Monday. But in a year where we were in big trouble, the coaches and the sports director tended to use experienced players. To finally be classified 7th at the premature end of the Ligue 1 season.
While wishing him "good luck", Jean-Michel Aulas did not fail to remind Pierre Kalulu that it was "more difficult to succeed in a foreign club, especially in Italy". Noting last season that he was Rudi Garcia's 6th option in central defense, including behind Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, and the 4th as a right back, the young player obviously had trouble believing that he had "Everything to succeed in Lyon".
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