Comments on: What Will It Take For Lyon to Become a Big Club?

By: Jerome Dehedin

Jerome Dehedin — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:11:12 +0000

In France the clubs finances are under scrutiny every time every year,no one cant spend the money they don’t have to buy players.Just to remind you the big four ( Spain,Italy,Germay,England,mainly the big clubs)in order of the best league playing attractive football, are all in debts but allowed to buy players in France you cant do that.Also until recently the French clubs could not be listed on the stock Market but now it is possible so very soon we going to see some changes.In France we are taking our time to modernise our Football stadiums and soon new stadiums in Lyon and new OL Land,Clermont Ferrand Clermont FA Stade Gabriel Montpied
Dijon Dijon FCO Stade Gaston Gérard
Le Havre Le Havre AC New Le Havre Stadium
Le Mans Le Mans UC 72 Stade Le Mans
Lille Lille OSC Stade Grimonprez-Jooris II
Marseille Olympique Marseille Nouveau Stade Velodrome
Nice OGC Nice Grand Stade Nice
Grenoble GF38 Stade d’Agglomeration
Gueugnon FC Gueugnon Stade Jean Laville
Reims Stade de Reims Stade Delaune II
Valenciennes Valenciennes AFC Stade Nungesser II ETC for sure we are moving in the right direction .

Jerome

By: robert

robert — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:52:46 +0000

a very well written article without bias. i must agree, OL are one of the best teams on the planet. they are still a young team in the CL and in terms of their historical achievements. they are financially the biggest or the strongest footballing team or most popular currently.

they have great talent and its about tiem perin starts including benzema and ben arfa as regulars. i think OL play exemplary football and while i am an outright milan fan, OL are for me the second best team on the damn planet along with bayern. i think 2008 CL is for OL. I do hope they win and beat us (milan) in the final.

it’s about time they created history.

By: glatisant

glatisant — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:41:30 +0000

This is OT, but Inara, you should wear your Juninho jersey when/if we ever have our Boston Ligue 1 fans getogether. I would recognize you!

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:00:50 +0000

I agree with Guignol. I lived in many cities before Lyon (Paris Included)… And I really wanna stay here. Lyon is an extraordinary town, with a lot of things to do… But anybody know that… except guys and girls who are living in !

By: guignol

guignol — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:08:47 +0000

about cities… i’m very familiar with all the cities listed and more, and honestly, as a place to live lyon beats ‘em all… except barna. whatta town!

By: Corey

Corey — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:00:40 +0000

I fear for this too, then again i did when Ged took over and we did alright so who knows.

By: Inara

Inara — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:38:13 +0000

Thanks for the excellent comments, guys. You’ve all pretty much reflect my thoughts on this. And Jan, thanks so much for the article. The FFF being as serious as it is, I’m fully confident that they’ll do their best to achieve those goals.

Laurie, I try. Really. I would wear my Juninho shirt in public if only people would actually know who he was where I live.

Julien, I know they have ten titles, but eh, it’s nothing that amazing (Juve has thirty). Plus, they’ve happened in one period too.

Also, about the CL – if Lyon don’t make the semis this year, they will have lost much of the respect they’ve spent the past few years gaining. The only thing is, I think next year Lyon won’t do well in the CL because we’ll have team with an entirely different tactical approach and with nearly a different composition. Plus, I have yet to see Perrin at work.

By: Julien

Julien — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:31:07 +0000

“1 – Big European clubs have a lot of titles.
On the French front, neither Marseille nor PSG are impressive in this regards either. Marseille have only eight league titles scattered throughout the past seventy years and only one Champions League win in 1993, though to their credit, they did make the UEFA Cup final a few years ago. PSG’s prize list is sadder, with only two league wins and one UEFA Cup Winner’s Cup in 1996.”

Well ASSE has 10 titles, which is pretty good. They haven’t done too well recently, though.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:41:40 +0000

Corey: Players in England, Spain and Italy don’t necessarily need to leave their league because EPL, La Liga and Serie A are strong and prestigous enough to keep their homegrown talent and there is obviously also more money in there for them IMHO. For Germany and the Bundesliga it’s a bit different. I don’t think that German players stay in the league because they are poud of their league. It’s just that German players weren’t in demand or sometimes underrated by foreign clubs for a rather long time. Since Klinsmann and later Löw brought the German national team back on track and showcased those players on the international stage demand by foreign clubs has risen again.

By: Allez Lyonnais

Allez Lyonnais — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:35:46 +0000

Lower taxes.