While many French football personalities, Jean-Michel Aulas in mind, were trying to find a solution to go after the 2019-20 fiscal year, the Professional Football League (LFP) decided this Thursday to formalize the final stop of the season. Thus, the classification is defined in Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 by the ratio of the number of points gleaned from matches played. A final whistle which, given the Covid-19 pandemic, may seem fair. But not in everyone's eyes. Olympique Lyonnais, who are - for the moment - not qualified for the next European cups by finishing in seventh place, do not agree with this decision. In a press release, the Rhone club thus expressed that it reserved "the possibility of bringing an appeal", accusing the League of not having studied all the solutions to finish the championship. “Olympique Lyonnais proposed as early as Tuesday that the League study an alternative solution that would allow the Championship to end (…) consistent with health constraints, and an innovative formula that would normally have interested broadcasters, currently lacking content, everything like sports betting and all the other economic players in the football industry. Given the judgment of the French Ligue 1 Championship, decreed today by the League, Olympique Lyonnais reserves the right to appeal against this decision and claim damages, in particular under the loss of luck and in light of the jurisprudence of other professional sports which are currently underway, because the damage to the club amounts to several tens of millions of euros, "OL explained in its press release.
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