Jean-Michel Aulas and Olympique Lyonnais did not disarm. While the Rhone club will seize Monday the Council of State to contest the suspension, then the final cessation of the Ligue 1 championship, the emblematic president continues to plead for a resumption of the debates. A recovery that he calls all the more for his wishes that everywhere in Europe, the championships are gradually resuming, in dispersed order. Germany regained the field last weekend, Spain received the green light from the government for a recovery from June 8 and in Italy and England, the clubs resumed the path of training, waiting patiently that a date falls.
"We tell ourselves that we are really too stupid"
In an interview with The Sunday Team , "JMA" expressed his frustration and worried that Ligue 1 would miss the train for the resumption of championships in Europe. The Spanish example only reinforces his bitterness. According to him, the authorities of French football rushed in making the wrong decision. " It is a height, this story. For two months, the Spanish leaders have been observing and working in phase with UEFA. What is paradoxical is that they attended, Javier Tebas in particular, the same meetings as Didier Quillot. That of April 23 in particular. In reality, what they said at this meeting with UEFA was: “patience”. When we see that our leaders attended, by drawing different conclusions, we say that we are really too stupid, excuse me for the term, " stormed the boss of Gones describing the position of French football as an absolute scandal .
"I never said that you had to go all the way if there was contamination"
According to Aulas, the French authorities did not even take the time to study the health protocol recommended by UEFA in the event of recovery. Even if these measures are not necessarily entirely satisfactory, as in Germany. “We see that there is a protocol before, during and after the matches. And if we realize that the risks materialize, well we stop. I never said that it was necessary to go to the end if there were contaminations " , insists the leader who is worried to see his team disputing the 8th of final return of the Champions League (facing the Juventus Turin) without any preparation match. "We will end up in early August with both feet attached and our heads cut off to play against Juventus, which will have resumed competition since June."
The Council of State, OL's last resort
Accused of playing the recovery card fully because stopping the championship does not do his club's business at all (7th in Ligue 1), Aulas ensures that he would also have done everything to end the season even if the situation had been to his advantage. "I promise you that, I swear it on the heads of my children. I am not at all the character that some have described lately , " concludes the President of Lyon who impatiently awaits the decision of the courts. The Paris administrative court declared itself incompetent to judge the appeal of OL, Toulouse and Amiens contesting the stoppage of the championship. The Council of State is the last chance for these slingers to turn things around.
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