Do OL regret missing out on Christophe Galtier this season?

• OL host OGC Nice this Saturday (9 p.m.) for a decisive Ligue 1 clash in the race for the Champions League.

• Still very inspired to martyr OM, Wednesday in the Coupe de France (4-1), Christophe Galtier had the opportunity to take over from Rudi Garcia, last May at OL.

• In view of the difficulties of Peter Bosz's team (8th, 8 points from Le Gym), do Lyon supporters regret this "failed good marriage of convenience" with the reigning French champion coach?

Was part of OL's season played out on May 25 in the classy gourmet restaurant of Villa Florentine, on the heights of Fourvière hill (Lyon 5th)?

That evening, according to someone close to the case, Christophe Galtier arrives "very relaxed, borderline casual" after two days celebrating his incredible title of champion of France freshly obtained at the head of Losc.

“There, facing Jean-Michel Aulas, Vincent Ponsot and Juninho, he announces directly: “I have chosen you, I want to be the coach of OL”.

No one expected Galtier to pull this off, the Lyon leaders were hallucinating.

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Because several media are already talking about an agreement between the former Stéphane coach and OGC Nice.

There is indeed a tense moment, during this meal, when Christophe Galtier tries to find out which player profiles the club is working on for the summer transfer window.

Juninho's position is then clear: cautious, he only intends to expose them to his ex-assistant coach (during the double season in 2007-2008 with Alain Perrin) once the contract has been signed.

The Lyonnais suffer seeing Gouiri investigate the goals

The rest, you know it: if the terms of this contract are well mentioned at the end of this famous dinner, Christophe Galtier warns Jean-Michel Aulas on May 27 to tell him that he is finally declining the Lyon offer.

His destination will be quickly known, but formalized only a month later by OGC Nice, due to laborious negotiations with Olivier Létang.

For their part, OL are forced to activate other leads and formalize Peter Bosz from May 29.

And it is therefore the latter who will face this Saturday (9 p.m.) the Gym at Parc OL for a match that will be very expensive.

"With Nice, it was probably tied up for a long time for Galtier, and he met Lyon for form", evokes another source close to this recent Ligue 1 soap opera. As at 

sequences

, one wonders where OL would be if "Galette" had chosen to take over the team almost nine months ago.

And finally, the Lyon supporters, who are already suffering when they see Amine Gouiri score 11 goals and 7 assists this season (what a masterpiece again on Wednesday against OM), do they regret in hindsight not having Christophe Galtier? on the bench ?

Read "When he came into play with OL it was not too much, it was impossible to guess that he was going to succeed" on Gouiri while he planted quadruplets in N2, doubles in the Youth League and that he had completely surreal statistics in EDF...

— Alex Ribeiro (@AlexRibeiro_T) February 10, 2022

"Galtier is too marked Sainté"

“Honestly, I preferred Peter Bosz's choice 10,000 times last June, recognizes Richard, a regular at the south bend.

In my eyes, there was going to be thanks to him a real evolution in my club in terms of the requirement and the game deployed.

Even today, when you can imagine that we wouldn't be 8th with him, I can't really regret that he didn't come.

Well, it's as much because he is too marked Sainté in my opinion as because his teams do not play a flamboyant game.

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A downside that comes up regularly about the former Marseille defender, follower of a 4-4-2 with a lot of speed in transitions.

But when we see the attacking recital of his team (3rd in Ligue 1) to tear down Jorge Sampaoli's OM (4-1) and enter the last four of the Coupe de France, we say to ourselves that the Nice supporters don't get bored every week.

“With him, we would probably be a solid second”

Meanwhile, in the opposite camp, Peter Bosz remains on two improbable compositions with his four side lined up in the eleven (Henrique, Emerson, Dubois and Gusto).

Choices worthy of the Réveillère-Debuchy doublet signed Laurent Blanc in the quarter of Euro 2012 against Spain (0-2).

Which of Bosz or Galtier is ultimately the guarantor of an "attractive and attacking" game, an expression hammered home excessively by the current OL coach last summer?

“In Lyon, even a coach with a very clear and almost caricatural playing DNA, sees all his principles disappear after a few games, regrets Vincent, a loyal Lyon supporter.

This is where we understand that the evil is deep with us: at PSG, the stars are stronger than the coach.

At OL, Aulas is above him.

“So that according to him, the arrival of Galtier in Lyon this season “Would have made a good marriage of convenience”.

He adapts so well to a lot of different situations in Ligue 1 that we can imagine that he would have been more Aulas-compatible.

With him, we would probably be a solid second in the championship with an impassable defensive block.

But from there to imagining a three-year project with Galtier, yeah…”

“It would have been boring to see OL play on the counter-attack”

As you will have understood, despite the 8 point difference in Ligue 1 between Nice and Lyon, OL supporters do not really regret the turn of the last summer transfer window.

“It would have been boring to see OL play on the counter-attack like all of Galtier's teams, supports Nicolas (33).

I don't forget how Nice was eaten away for 80 minutes by OL in the first leg (0-2 in the 80th, 3-2 in the end).

If Kadewere does not take his red card, we would not have made crates behind on the so-called tactical blow of Galtier that day.

It was one of OL de Bosz's best matches, along with the one at the Parc des Princes.

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For two defeats after leading in the score in the end.

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which highlight all that Christophe Galtier could have brought to this group, with his sense of winning and his profile as a unanimously recognized leader of men.

“Galtier has something that you can't take away from him: he allows his teams to put a lot of intensity into the game,” observes Richard.

The man of the memorable reversals of matches against OL

Like last season too, when his Lille team suddenly suffocated and overthrew Rudi Garcia's OL in a pivotal match (2-0 in the 40th, 2-3 at the end).

This success almost offered the title to Losc, and cost the Champions League to the Lyonnais.

Rebelote therefore last October, when the five changes chained by the Gym coach in the last half hour, and especially the entry into play of Youcef Atal, turned the outcome of this turning point of the season upside down in the fight for the podium.

Admit that it smells of the memorable outpouring of joy between Amine Gouiri and a Galtier (as usual) in a trance against OL, this case, right?

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