OL were looking for a new boss. The Rhone club announced the departure of Peter Bosz, Sunday October 9, 2022, while already appointing his successor, in the person of Laurent Blanc, who has signed up for two years. The Dutch coach, laid off as a precaution, pays a mixed start to the season. Held in check Friday evening by Toulouse at home, OL are losing momentum. If the Lyonnais are ninth in the championship, three points from the European places, they remain above all on a series of five games without a win, including four defeats.
Club press release ⤵
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Laurent Blanc has signed up until June 2024, and arrives with Franck Passi, former OM coach, as assistant and Philippe Lambert as physical trainer. “The three men will work in collaboration with the staff already in place.”specifies the press release, which is delighted to “give back to Olympique Lyonnais a very ambitious dimension for the future, both on the French and continental scene.” OL also adds that the decision was “taken unanimously by the whole institution” and that exchanges took place in the night from Saturday to Sunday with John Textor, the future owner of the club.
Arrived in the Rhône on May 29, 2021, Peter Bosz, 58, embodied OL’s European ambitions after the departure of Rudi Garcia. Francophone since his time as a player in Toulon between 1988 and 1991, the Dutchman was only the second foreign coach of the Jean-Michel Aulas era, after Sylvinho in 2019. But the former coach of Ajax Amsterdam and from Borussia Dortmund has never really convinced OL.
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After missing European qualification last season (8th), Bosz’s Olympique Lyonnais was expected at the turn at the start of the season. The returns of Alexandre Lacazette and Corentin Tolisso had aroused great hope among the supporters, quickly showered by the club’s ups and downs. Peter Bosz, renowned for his game ideas, has never managed to put his mark on the team. He becomes the fourth coach sacked during the season by Jean-Michel Aulas in 34 years of presidency, after Guy Stéphan (1997), Hubert Fournier (2015), and Sylvinho (2019).