Olympique Lyonnais dominated French football during the 2000s, winning seven successive Ligue 1 titles, and they knocked Manchester City out of the UEFA Champions League quarter finals in 2020 – just three years ago.
Now the club is bottom of the Ligue 1 table though, having finished 7th and 8th in their last two campaigns, and without a win from their first five games of the season.
With supporters in open revolt, Laurent Blanc asking to be sacked, and co-owners at loggerheads, HITC Sevens takes a look at the series of crises afflicting Lyon, the cause of their current plight, and what the future may hold for one of France’s biggest clubs.
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This is the first time seeing HITC use a video clip
Blanc might have had offers from Saudi 🇸🇦 🤔
I feel really sorry for the fans Blanc is blatantly scamming them. He has no interest in being there, he's trying to force them into giving him his last pay day as a football manager.
Rich oil money nations are destroying football.. they are rigging the entire game so only they can afford the best players. We need some sort of reset.
Always blows me away that you can't get an intro done in under 4 minutes when most of YouTube has done the intro and are half way to finishing 😂
2000s Lyon was a beast.
This is timely. Laurent Blanc just left as coach.
Blanc has been fired as I’m watching this for the first time 😭
And today Blanc has been sacked
Oh look, they just sacked Laurent Blanc this morning
On the note of trying to buy Benfica, I think you'd enjoy finding out why he wasn't able to buy the club, and the whole situation around the club president who was in charge at the time
Could you do a video on why countries seem to have bursts of talent in a particular position? Like the strikers coming from Nigeria after osimhen, and poland for lewandowski or the midfielders that came out after modric in Croatia? I think it's an interesting phenomenon
Although I am a PSG fan, I do not like seeing such a club in dire straits… 😒
Great video as always Alfie.
Could we get a video on Southend United please.
As I still don't fully understand how a club like that are in the mess they are. So sad to see. Hope they can get out of it the situation they are in.
FWIW.. OL Reign’s rival Portland Thorns won the NWSL last season
sometimes as well if these owns stay to long and they start getting older they start to lose interest in the team they own bernisconi at ac milan for instance
Was never too happy with the OL branding being foisted on the Reign, and would welcome a new owner and return to the original Seattle Reign team Identity.
Sad to see Lyon in this state, I've been watching Ligue 1 as a UK native for some years. I fell in love with ASSE (Saint Etienne) at the turn of the century and French football has been in decline since. I have no idea why there isn't more investment in the league as a whole given the natural talent prodcued by it
As a Lyon fan I have to say that this current Lyon squad is really struggling right now. I really missed this club having players like Memphis Depay, Houssem Aouar, Karl Toko Ekambi, Nabil Fekir, Lucas Paqueta, Jason Denayer, Leo Dubois, and others. This club has officially lost the title of being one of the best clubs in France right now. If Lyon didn’t become a selling club to sell their best players to English, Spanish, German, or Italian teams, they maybe wouldn’t have been in this situation in the first place. This current squad’s performance on the pitch is very poor, just like its financial status. In my opinion, Lyon is in a huge crisis and needs a reboot.
all this just for them to finish 6th
27:47 – RIP Maxi Jazz
i was really hoping to see a picture of Father Ted when you said 'Financial Irregularities'
Its a french club. Not big club. Still good story for a club i kinda like.
Interesting. Clearly, Blanc's assistant worked well as a team. Maybe get them back together. It's a bit similar to Rafa Benitez. He's a wonderful coach, but he is better when assisted by Pako Ayesterán. Pako is a dismal coach on his own (as seen at Valencia) but when Rafa and Pako were together, this combination worked wonders. Jean-Louie worked well with Blanc, clearly. So there's something there. Rafa Benitez is so good that he still gets results without Pako, but it's nowhere near the formidable force that there was when they were together. Some managerial teams need to stick together as a team, I think. This has been proven time and time again, and this is just another example. It doesn't mean that Laurent Blanc is incompetent, or that Jean-Louis his assistant is the messiah, but that the two together is what clicks. Like Rafa and Pako. Take away the assistant, and results can be okay or can be really bad.
When is Alfie gonna make the jump to his own channel