Finally !
This is a first convergent point of view between Lyon boss John Textor and his predecessor Jean-Michel Aulas.
Like the latter several years ago, the American owner of Olympique Lyonnais castigated the overwhelming domination of PSG in L1.
The Parisians, who face AS Monaco this Friday evening, are 11 lengths ahead of their runner-up Brest with 11 days to go.
“Who is going to be interested in the French Championship and watch it on TV if we know who is going to win,” he said this Thursday in London where he was taking part in a conference organized by the Financial Times newspaper on the business of football (Financial Times Business of football Summit).
“Everyone is fighting for second place, it’s the same team that wins every year,” he added.
Other clubs are competing with a government, not a private company.
I say to Nasser (Al-Khelaïfi) in private and sometimes in public: is anyone having fun?
Why do you like it?
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Since the arrival of QSI in 2011 at PSG, the capital club has won the championship only three times: in 2012 (Montpellier), 2017 (Monaco) and 2021 (Lille).
After outrageously dominating the L1 in the 2000s with 7 titles in a row, OL have seriously fallen back in the French hierarchy.
Relegated for a long time this season, the Rhone residents, who host Lens on Sunday evening (8:45 p.m.), moved up to 10th place in L1 after four consecutive victories.
They also qualified on Tuesday evening for the semi-finals of the Coupe de France after a success at the end of the penalty shootout in front of Strasbourg.