Comments on: Karim Benzema and Hatem Ben Arfa Can’t Leave Until Lyon Win the Champions League

By: Shadowx55x

Shadowx55x — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:12:42 +0000

to ronan : thats where players like Tales and William from Brazil come in ( there dubbed the next Juninho’s )

By: ronan

ronan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:14:48 +0000

last thing before i go- the genious juninho is 33 and may soon retire unfortunately, so surely a search now must start for a young extremely talented long term replacement init!

By: ronan

ronan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:58:22 +0000

Im a lyon fan through and through thats why players like kleber anderson are bollocks and sonny anderson are brilliant, because sonny cost 20 million and kleber cost 2 million. vercoutre-well he is SHIT.as for the striker situation-obafemi martins for me,center back-escude and alain perrin out Didier deshamps in please Aulas!

By: ronan

ronan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:47:07 +0000

Hold on a minute aulas you cant say you want to win the champions league when your coaching staff are aiming for uefa cup football and you let players like diarra,essien,malouda,tiago,abidal and cacapa leave the club to be replaced by cheap nobodys.If you really want this, lets see you spend about 30-40 million in january or the summer oright. [by the way kleber anderson is absoloutly CRAP-get him out of the club for sure]

By: Paoli

Paoli — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:38:55 +0000

I guess they’ll never leave then .
Benzema is going to be a world class player, I doubt they can keep him. Until 2/3 years, he is gone.
Milan really wants to sign him.

By: Ush

Ush — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:00:15 +0000

I don’t buy that. Deschamps had much better cup pedigree, aswell as league with Juventus, he got Monaco to the CL final. I’m sure he was double the money at least that Perrin would be though. What cup has Perrin won apart from the French Cup last year??

By: Pride of Lyon

Pride of Lyon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:41:33 +0000

I don’t think the choice of Alain Perrin as a coach was a cheap choice. I agree that aulas and Lacombe wanted to have a coach they could keep control of, but the choice of Alain Perrin was quite clever in my opinion.
Why did they take Perrin and not someone else? simply because Perrin has a very good cup record as a coach. In a table league, he is an average coach, but on a cup match, he is very good. For the last season Lyon has always been doing very well in the group stage or in the Championnat, but everytime it came to cup matches, we were losing very quickly.
I am pretty confident that Lyon will go very far in the european cup they will be qualified for (UEFA or CL), as Perrin just likes those games and prepares his players well for those games.

A good example is the peace cup. An average group phase with a loss against Reading, but in the end, he didn’t bottle up the big games (River Plate and Bolton).

Of course if Lyon doesn’t go through the group stage in CL, all that I said will be considered as irrelevant. But I do actually like Perrin.

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:38:12 +0000

Govou to Roma for Mancini? Who would have thunk that at the start of the season…But, I dont like buying Mancini, he is not needed. Govou being offloaded is tolerable to me though, he has been a great servant to the club, and with Remy, Karaaboue, Monsanto, Mounier and Roman Miguet all looking to break through, this may be a good thing. But he has taken on leadership on the field, so many variables to such a move.

By: Ush

Ush — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:48:41 +0000

lefutur : Exactly. Submissive aside, lets not forget Perrin would be a hell of alot cheaper! He should have spent some money, and got a good coach that he could trust. Otherwise he may aswell just manage the team himself.

By: Magnusson

Magnusson — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:03:08 +0000

The problemis that Aulas keeps talking about winning the CL to please the shareholders whil he should have been straight up with them and explain how he plans on building the team of the future but that’s not something popular to say.
The emergence of benzema is a blessing for him because despite all the money they got, they didn’t buy a world-class striker.
NOw he should have told people it was a transitionning season and recruited less expensive players. I really believe they recruited like paris or marseille this year, only recruiting names to please casual fans with Grosso and Keita, like Paris recruited Gallardo and Marseille recruited Zenden..