TRANSFERS – The new recruitment manager for Olympique Lyonnais, Bruno Cheyrou, is already at work before the start of the summer transfer window. Asked on Friday on OL TV, the former LOSC player raised the problem of “lack of personality, character” of players from Lyon. He also set the course for next season: a central defender and the emergence of young people.
Even if Jean-Michel Aulas continues to hope for a possible backtrack for the L1, OL are already preparing for the 2020-2021 season. In an interview given to OLTV, Bruno Cheyrou, the brand new recruiter for the seventh in Ligue 1, took stock of the Lyon transfer window. The former LOSC or Liverpool midfielder is already at work: “I chat several times a day with Juni (Juninho, sports director, editor’s note) “. He seeks in particular to strengthen the Rhone club in central defense but also to offer more playing time to the young people of the training center.
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As part of a program, Cheyrou was questioned by a Gones supporter about an alleged lack of “players who have gnack, ‘shouts‘”, and he replied:”Very clearly, we have the same observation and it is already a good thing. Supporters, leaders … everyone was unanimous enough to say that last year, he lacked personality, character, and that the team was made of very good players but lacked the strength to tell the truth inside the group and show your teeth a bit compared to the opponent. “ It aims to remedy this: “It is obvious that this will be one of the lines of work of the recruitment cell.” In defense, in particular.
Targeted Sakho, young people not forgotten
“The personality and character of a team starts from behind and from the central defense. In this register, we will be fairly active fairly quickly“, adds Bruno Cheyrou. While Joachim Andersen, the most expensive rookie in OL history last summer, did not give satisfaction during the 2019-2020 financial year, Lyon would have started discussions with Mamadou Sakho, the defender of Crystal Palace, according to information from The team.
As it has already done in the past with Alexandre Lacazette or Samuel Umtiti, or even more recently with Houssem Aouar, Olympique Lyonnais may have to trust its young people even more. “If we ever have a golden generation with five or six young people coming out every year, and we don’t need to recruit from outside, well I would be delighted, said Bruno Cheyrou. If Rayan Cherki is good at 16 and deserves to be titular, well he must play“For its seventieth anniversary, Lyon is opening a new chapter in its history.
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