Rudi Garcia? Jean-Michel Aulas (Lyon) defends this choice

Posted on October 17, 2019 at 8:40 pm – updated on October 17, 2019 at 9:08 pm

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It will at least wait until Saturday, 17:30, and meeting Lyon – Dijon, to find out if the Lyon supporters have digested the arrival of Rudi Garcia on the bench Rhone. What is already certain, however, is that the club has done everything possible to make it accepted. After a presentation press conference where the harmony between Juninho, the sports director, and the former coach of OM has constantly been put forward, Jean-Michel Aulas invited himself on the set ofOLTV to try to reassure. Again.

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Aulas advocates dialogue

And when he was questioned, by a spectator, about a possible anxiety to see the stands of Groupama Stadium install a form of distrust against the Lyon coach, as they had done with Bruno Genesio, "JMA Played the appeasement. "We have probably not sufficiently communicated on the methodological or on Rudi Garcia, who arrives with its dimension of combatant and rigor, he said. We must have exchanges, to better understand the reactions of each, and bring a maximum of answers. In this sense, the president of Olympique Lyonnais met Tuesday, the leaders of the main groups of supporters, to engage the dialogue.

His heavy liability with Garcia? "It was not a disadvantage"

To make him accept his choice – which he also credited to Juninho – the leader of the Rhone has praised the qualities of the 55-year-old technician. "We needed a coach with a lot of experience in Ligue 1, the European Cup, and a fighting spirit," he said. And too bad if we had to erase a heated liability between the two camps: "It's true that we had a number of exchanges with Rudi. But for me, it was not a disadvantage, because it showed that he wanted to defend his club. The interest is that we reverse the trend, that matters a priori. If he has been able to say a few things in Marseille, he will be even more capable of doing so to defend OL. "

The question of the staff and the specter Laurent Blanc

The arguments have not changed since the formalization of the collaboration. Remains to dispel the specter of Laurent Blanc, a favorite time to succeed Sylvinho, finally left to his inactivity, the fault to impossible requirements to satisfy the constitution of his staff. Where Rudi Garcia made concessions: "It was considered that, when a coach arrives in Lyon during the season, keeping the staff is more of an advantage than a disadvantagesaid Aulas. We found an intermediate situation with Rudi. He arrives with Claude Fichaux and other collaborators, even if he will also be surrounded by a certain number of staff members, to avoid too much disruption. It's a choice dictated by urgency. But a choice that has not yet been accepted by all supporters.

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