In office for five months as coach of Olympique Lyonnais, after the dismissal of Peter Bosz, Laurent Blanc feels good in the Rhone club. “Register for the long term? But results are needed for a coach to last in a club. Just for that, the management and myself, we are motivated to have them. We start something with a group very young and we will see how it evolves”, explained Blanc in a press conference.
“We’re happy to be here and me, personally, I’m very well. I love my group. I hope it’s reciprocal. We modulated it (this winter) because at the start it was a bit more difficult. But once we’ve said that, it’s not enough. We’re friendly, we work but it’s the results that make it last or not. We know it, “insisted the former national coach . He admitted “having been used to the idea for a long time that OL (could) no longer qualify for the Champions League”.
Lucid about the state of the club
“The margin has always been narrow. We are lucid about the workforce. I’m telling the truth. I’m not happy to announce this. I’m not hiding anything. I’d rather my group be in the fight for qualifying for the Champions League. But if that were the case, I might not be here,” he conceded.
“We parted with a lot of players (six) during the break and you could think that we had to find others. There were difficulties, it’s part of the life of a club. accept but you have to be lucid about the analysis that you can have. I hope that people are. I have thought for a very long time that we would be more competitive with a defensive midfielder, “said Blanc again while the club Rhône has failed to recruit for this position. “Talking about the Champions League, everyone can do it, but then you have to be solid and built to go there. And there, we are not yet built for that,” concluded the OL coach.