The gradual downgrading of OL in Ligue 1 in recent seasons can not only be seen in the rankings, but also in more or less achievable dreams.
Thus, Juninho's return coincided with the desire to bring Karim Benzema back by 2022/2023, before everyone realized that the Madrid striker was still far too strong to return to France.
So we went to the Lacazette track, at the end of the contract in June and therefore a goal confessed by Vincent Ponsot during the last winter transfer window.
An attractive track on paper, as Lacazette, author of 129 goals in 275 games with OL, left fond memories for Lyon supporters.
But track almost impossible to achieve if Peter Bosz fails to qualify his team for a European Cup next season, as the captain of Arsenal explained at the CFC microphone on Sunday evening.
"Without Europe, it's more complicated"
Initially optimistic - “I have never lost contact with Lyon, I try to come back once or twice a year to see the medical staff.
OL came to the news because the club knows I'm free, it's true "- the former club captain keeps a long silence when our colleague asks him if he sees himself returning to L1 without playing the Europe: “It's a little more complicated, I want to play Europe, it's been a long time since I've played the Champions League too and I miss it.
After all, nothing is impossible in life, but it's a little more complicated”.
A return of the "Lyonnais gang" to OL?
🔙@LacazetteAlex is not against... But European qualification will weigh in the balance 👀
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— Canal Football Club (@CanalFootClub) April 17, 2022
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For the Champions League, it's dead from home, and for the rest, frankly, there is work for a team that is not much better than its current 8th place.
But the problem also arises for Arsenal, on the verge of screwing everything up after having practically locked 4th place, synonymous with the first qualification in C1 for ages.
In short, Lacazette, who has the choice to go where he wants, will have a hard time giving his preference to one or the other at the rate things are going.
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