• Since the departure of Emerson, back from loan at Chelsea, Olympique Lyonnais has been looking for a left side.

  • The Rhone club thought it had found it in the person of the promising Feyenoord Rotterdam player, Tyrell Malacia (22).

  • A priori doubled by Manchester United in these transfer window negotiations, OL mainly had to deal with hardly recommendable interlocutors around the Dutch international, according to Vincent Ponsot this Friday.

Corentin Tolisso may have been formalized as expected, this Friday in front of the press, many Lyon supporters keep in the throat the non-signing of the promising left side of Feyenoord Rotterdam Tyrell Malacia (22 years old).

Priority of Peter Bosz for this position left vacant by the departure of Emerson, the young Dutch international was very close to OL at the start of the week, before Manchester United entered the dance to overtake Lyon in the negotiations.

“It's true that we didn't end up in Malacia, observes Jean-Michel Aulas.

I saw that the one who had made additional proposals [Man-U therefore] had the same difficulties as us to come to a conclusion.

That means it might not have been such an easy case to pull off.

“We thought we would be content with this enigmatic explanation from the President of Lyon.

“We will never endanger the institution for a player”

But his director of football Vincent Ponsot, personally singled out by supporters after the failures of previous transfer window files like André Onana and Sardar Azmoun, took the plunge in a sharp way to say the least.

It is not a question of financial means.

I will be very clear: the institution is always stronger than any player.

In the world of football, we sometimes have requests that we do not make because we will never endanger the institution for a player.

I think the president is happy to sleep peacefully at night and not see the police come in the morning.

I can't say everything, but the requests we have for commission amounts… to pay them…, we don't do.

So it's true that sometimes it derails deals.

For us, it's closed because the integrity of the club is more important than anything.

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It does look like a double-closed file, after such a public outing at the sulphate against the entourage of Tyrell Malacia.

We recognize that we are now curious to discover the new club of the Dutch defender, as well as the turn of his career.

In the meantime, do not count on Jean-Michel Aulas to sink into pessimism after such a hitch.

Reinvigorated by the conclusion of a much more crucial deal with John Textor, JMA thus launches: “We will suddenly position ourselves on the dimension above to try to have the best team possible”.

We can't wait to find out the identity of the lucky one.

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