Former Blues coach Laurent Blanc, recruited for two seasons, will have the ambition to relaunch his career. He was previously free of any contract.
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L’Olympique Lyonnais (OL), which has lost four of its last five Ligue 1 games, has sacked its coach since June 2021, the Dutchman Peter Bosz. In a club that has been looking for itself for three years and is about to be sold to American businessman John Textor, the new underperformance against Toulouse (1-1) Friday in Ligue 1, after four defeats in a row , sounded the death knell for the former Ajax Amsterdam and Bayer Leverkusen technician, with too starving results. “Given the disappointing results obtained during this start to the season, which remain well below expectations and the objectives set, Olympique Lyonnais informs of the layoff on a protective basis of Peter Bosz”, wrote OL. in a press release.
OL were held in check by promoted Toulouse on Friday in front of their home crowd (1-1) and advanced to 7e provisional place in the L1 championship, with 14 points.
“After having exchanged in the night from Saturday to Sunday with John Textor, Olympique Lyonnais informs that it has taken the decision to appoint Laurent Blanc as head coach of the professional team for 2 seasons, i.e. until June 30, 2024 added the club.
To train OL in the process of being taken over by the American businessman John Textor, the Lyon leaders have therefore opted for the former coach of the Blues, free of any contract since his dismissal by the Qatari club of Al-Rayyan in February. According The Teamthe 1998 world champion has been in negotiations with OL for several days.
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Blanc, 56, has not coached in L1 since leaving Paris SG in 2016. In just six seasons as L1 coach, three in Bordeaux (2007-2010) and as many at Paris SG (2013-2016), the former defender, who passed through Naples, Marseille, Barcelona and Manchester United, has forged an impressive record, including four French championship titles, including three in the capital.
But the “president”, who will be accompanied as assistant by Franck Passi, ephemeral coach of Marseille, has a lot to prove: he has not occupied a leading team bench since 2016.