Rudi Garcia, Jean-Michel Aulas and Juninho, here on October 15 during the presentation of the new OL coach to the press.

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  • The draw (1-1) conceded against an OM quickly reduced to 10 weakened Rudi Garcia even more on Sunday.

  • After speaking Tuesday evening on OLTV, Jean-Michel Aulas spoke again about the fate of his trainer this Wednesday during a press conference call.

  • The president of OL announces that he wants to "take stock" only at the end of the first leg of Ligue 1, despite this current 14th place, already seven points behind Stade Rennais and Losc.

“We are in good financial health which has enabled us not to have to sell our best players and therefore to prioritize football.

"During a telephone press conference, organized at the end of the transfer window on Wednesday, Jean-Michel Aulas had a message to send to OL supporters, legitimately worried about their team's current 14th place in the League. 1 after six days.

Removed from the Parc OL since the start of the season due to extremely small gauges (5,000 and now 1,000 spectators authorized) in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, they could find a role behind the scenes.

"We want to organize more consultations between players and supporters because the latter can no longer experience football from the inside," said the president of OL.

We have to change mentalities on both sides because we can see that the team does not display the same enthusiasm as during the Champions League.

If the groups of Lyon supporters have the opportunity to express themselves, there is no doubt that they will point to Rudi Garcia as first responsible for this missed start to the season.

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"Wait before judging on the evidence"

Until then without a solution to stop a very negative spiral, with no success during the last five days of the championship and even no goal in the game since the victory against Dijon (4-1) on August 28, the former Marseille coach is it is really threatened today?

JMA responded to this on Wednesday.

We decided to wait and make the transfer window corresponding to the request of the sports director and the coach, before judging on the evidence.

It would be unfair to imagine that Rudi Garcia could be held totally responsible for those first six games in which we did not perform well.

We try to strengthen the team rather than hitting the coach with short arms.

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"Juninho chose Rudi Garcia without any intervention from anyone"

The day before, on OLTV, the Lyon boss did not hesitate to put pressure on his coach, under contract until next June: "We will take our responsibilities if the results are insufficient, we will not. is not there yet.

We must take a step back.

Rudi Garcia knows very well that he has only one hypothesis, and that is to win again ”.

Already dropped seven points from Stade Rennais and Losc, OL will quickly have to recover so as not to experience a second consecutive season without the Champions League.

"The objective is more than ever to finish in the first two," Jean-Michel Aulas insisted on Tuesday on OLTV.

We will wait until the end of December to see what is happening and take stock.

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There is no doubt that the president of OL wanted to ensure this Wednesday that if Rudi Garcia had been on the Lyon bench for a year, it was due to a choice of Juninho.

“'Juni' is the sporting director and he chose Rudi Garcia without any intervention from anyone.

If he tells you otherwise, you will tell him that I was present at all the meetings and that I did not feel like that.

Gérard Houllier was part of the reflection, but as an external advisor, he served as

go between

[intermediary] and he did not carry more weight than Juni and Vincent Ponsot [now director general of football].

So, convinced?

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