O. Lyon: "Four places in the Champions League to offset competition from PSG and Monaco" (JM Aulas)

"If we are to accept this unfair competition, the clubs that meet the financial fair play regulations should be compensated. This is a problem of fairness, ethics ... We need French clubs other than Paris SG and Monaco to play in the Champions League. It is therefore necessary to have a discussion with UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) for four places like other championships," said Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Olympique Lyonnais, in addition to the presentation of financial results from the first half of 2013-14 for the OL Groupe on 26/02/2014.

Currently, three French clubs have access to the Champions League, the first two of Ligue 1 are directly qualified for the group stage and the third is scheduled to play in the third qualifying round in order to access the group stages.

Based on the UEFA coefficients, only three countries have four places for the 2013-14 Champions League: England, Spain and Germany, each with three clubs directly into the group stage and one in the play-off rounds. Italy and Portugal have three places like France, but the third Italian and…