“There’s no way we’ll get relegated.”
-Every club owner before relegation.
There is no relegation battle in Ba Sing Se
I mean, he’s
confidentdelusional, I’ll give him that.ajax and lyon really have stubborn people thats crazy
Ajax and Lyon are great case studies into why football has devolved into a broken sport masquerading as bad business. The elite aren’t the elite because they have some grand masters behind the scenes (some do, most don’t). Majority of football clubs are run exceptionally poorly. It’s a grand combination of luck, basic planning, staying the course and opportunity. Ajax wanted to make serious changes after last season and got someone who was regarded as a smart mind. Then he starts attempting to tear everything down so he could do favors for his buddies. John Textor bought Lyon and tried to run it like Clearlake did with Chelsea but without extreme investment. Their situation is exactly where Chelsea would be if it weren’t for ownership ceding control to the directors they hired.
So many bad transfers happen in football because of ego, ulterior motives, vested interests, favours, an absence of planning, arrogance, panic, injuries, doing transfers just to please a rabid fan base in an age where the transaction has quickly become more popular than the actual sport. But it’s made especially worse when the egos involved are too volatile and act like they know better because, well, they got in their position somehow so clearly they’re the geniuses and we don’t know more than them.
It’s why it always kills me when people idolize managers or sporting directors. As if they’re infallible human beings as opposed to flawed humans like the rest of us trying to do what their version of right is.
Our situation has nothing to do with Textor tho. It’s Aulas.
Aulas only planned things as us being in CL. The COVID fucked us because our league stopped L1 while we were 7th. (we went in semi-final of CL beating Juve with CR7 and Man City with the same team) At that moment, we dont have money coming in, no CL, we’re fucked since.
Every year having to sell our best players, having incompetent people hired that have no clue what to do with the money we have (Ponsot, Cheyrou) and they bullied the only one that knew what to do and invested well (Juninho, he wasn’t perfect and did mistakes, but did many great things, the other two didn’t do half of what he did in a short time).
Then Aulas having to sell because some investors left. He sold us as soon as possible without caring of the future. Textor is a clown, but we’re in that position because of Aulas. I mean the good things (being known in europe, academy, stadium) but also the bad ones (being shit and having no future).
Sir, this is a wendys
Ehh I can’t speak for Lyon but this is not really a good assessment of what has happened with us. What is true however is that everything in football is volatile and fickle as hell. A player that’s great today is horrible tomorrow or the other way around and that goes for managers, sporting directors, clubs and even leagues all the same.
It’s thinking that ‘because you’re good today, you’ll be good tomorrow’ that is the real danger here. It’s behind our problems, it’s behind Lyon’s problems, hell, it’s the reason Serie A is not the best league in the world anymore.
Same thing for Lyon. Our problems aren’t new, we have been at different levels of shit for almost a decade, people were happy for Aulas selling eh club, and later being kicked.
Could you say the same about the really elite football managers players directors too?
well that’s just not true
There’s been plenty of people that share the same sentiment though. He’s preaching to the delusional group of supporters that still think that the club isn’t heading towards disaster.
3 points in 9 matches, the second to last is 2 points ahead with a game in hand. There is confidence then there is desilusion. I can’t imagine lyon fans are too happy with this carefree statement.
Weren’t you guys close to relegation a few years ago? Or am i remebering it wrong? You have a good squad now!
Yeah, we ended the 17-18 season 1 point clear of relegation playoff. Dire season.
Since then we’ve had more consistent success with European finishes, a second place and off course the title winning season.
Right now we have a good first team but some roles lack real quality or depth (or both). The shaby transfer window by our president put us in a tight spot for the conference league.
The other teams around Lyon know exactly they are in a relegation battle, Lyon should accept as fast as possible.
And fuck John Textor.
That’s exactly what Gonalons (former OL player now Clermont) said after the game, he said “we know we are in the relegation battle, Lyon players now need to accept it too”
Is he aware of the calendar and the game coming ?
Don’t do it Lyon
Denial✔️
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
AcceptanceDude probably hasn’t even seen the table. The contrast between this and Grosso’s statements show just out of touch with the situation Textor is. It would be one thing if he said he was confident in the teams abilities and that they’ll be able too avoid relegation but the way it’s worded is so arrogant and ignorant to the very real threat.
Is he out of touch or does he just don’t care?
Love Maitland-Niles but his choice of clubs to play for is horrendous
Not like he’s any good himself
To think that this mf tried to buy Benfica. Luckily we are fan owned.
risk implies possibility, he’s just saying they’re definitely going down
People saying otherwise are being dramatic. Lyon will not get relegated this season.
Look at the table man, there is a very good chance we get relegated