With OL, every day its press release. This Friday, the club chaired by Jean-Michel Aulas announces "having officially entered the Professional Football League to ask it to reconsider the position to definitively stop the 2019-20 Ligue 1 season, which it took on April 30 in a hasty and hasty manner, as the club has constantly emphasized since ». Les Gones stresses that the health situation is evolving in a “very positive” way and find multiple reasons for hope in the latest government declarations and French football authorities. Authorization to resume training from June 2 to the possibility of organizing matches from 22, via the LFP which announced this Friday that friendly matches could be played in July. In short, all the lights are green, from the point of view of Olympique Lyonnais and its hyper-media president, still president on the airwaves this Friday, onRTL in this case, to request the organization of an extraordinary General Assembly of the League and thus demand the resumption of the 2019-20 French championship.
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"The conditions seem to be in place for professional clubs to compete not only in friendly matches but also in official matches", summarizes OL in its press release of the day. The club “therefore officially requests the LFP to review the decision to definitively stop the L1 championship, a decision of which it alone has the authorship as underlined yesterday evening Prime Minister Edouard Philippe (and) to study the conditions of 'a resumption of the 2019-20 Ligue 1 championship so that the championship verdict is dictated by sporting merit alone in accordance with UEFA recommendations, even if it means adopting a different format in the form of play-offs as also recommended by UEFA. "
Play-offs to compensate for losses?
Note that a possible resumption of the 2019-20 season would actually shake up the calendar for the 2020-21 fiscal year, with the first matches scheduled for August 23. Never mind, "Olympique Lyonnais think that the resumption of the championship could, if necessary, possibly postpone the resumption of the next 2020-21 season towards mid-September as will the La Liga with its broadcaster Mediapro, now Ligue 1 broadcaster. Olympique Lyonnais finally imagines that the resumption of the Ligue 1 championship in a play-off format could interest broadcasters, notably Mediapro, and thus make it possible to generate revenue which partially compensates for the hundreds of millions lost. by the hasty initiative of the Professional Football League to end the 2019-20 season. ” Obviously, the LFP should grant only limited credit to the demands of OL and its president. It will be no. In any case, we cannot blame Mr. Aulas for not having tried everything… Even if it annoys a lot of people. Like Roxana Maracineanu, who invites him, in L'Alsace , "to make a film" as there are so many scenarios to offer.
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