Pure Jean-Michel Aulas. When Stade de Reims left the Europa League prematurely in September 2020 against Hungarians Fehérvár FC, the president of Olympique Lyonnais did not hesitate : “Jean-Pierre Caillot has just had the hard experience of what it is to have been European by option”, mockingly, in the columns of The team, the president of OL, in reference to the 2019-2020 season of Ligue 1 stopped ten games from the end, wrongly according to him, excluding his club from a qualification for the European Cup.
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Jean-Pierre Caillot, the normal president
This spike is released when his counterpart from Reims succeeds him as president of the Ligue 1 college within the Professional Football League (LFP). Upon taking office, Jean-Pierre Caillot, early support of the new president, Vincent Labrune, advocates a more collective college, less turned towards the interests of the big clubs.
A normal president for normal clubs, in short? “The problem with clubs with traditional shareholders is that we do not have the income of a State or a billionaire, remind the World this entrepreneur in road transport. For these clubs, you have to pay the charges without the income. The stake is clear: to be there at the end of the crisis. ” Because the hour is serious. According to the assessments of the LFP, revealed by The team on January 27, the 20 clubs in Ligue 1 would accumulate losses of 1.3 billion euros.
Faced with the consequences of the health crisis and after the defection of the broadcaster Mediapro, Mr. Caillot warns ” large “ (Paris, Marseille and Lyon in particular) against temptation “To grab more shares of TV rights”. Especially since, as he recalls, “The cake to be shared risks being smaller”, with a revengeful Canal + group – it had been beaten in the 2018 call for tenders – and in a strong position on the current one, launched after the withdrawal of Mediapro.
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Jean-Michel Aulas, the “essential”
At the edge of the abyss, French football clings to all hands strong enough to hold it back. On September 10, 2020, the election of Vincent Labrune could have confirmed the loss of influence of a Jean-Michel Aulas, unfortunate support of Michel Denisot and absent (by choice) from the new board of directors of the League. Since then, the Lyonnais has become someone listened to and sought after. “Labrune understood that he was essential and Aulas is no longer saying that he is a badly elected president”, deciphers a connoisseur of the arcana of the League.
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