ExclusiveCovid-19: "If we were to start again, we must not jeopardise next season" (J-M. Aulas, O. Lyonnais)

"I think we have to position ourselves for a delay of the season (2019-20) and be very realistic with a very precise economic vision. Even if we were to start again, we must not jeopardise next season (2020-21) which is an important season because of the increase in revenue from TV rights, which has risen from €750m to nearly €1.4bn annually over four years," said Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1 Conforama), to News Tank Football on 01/04/2020.

"The less we try to postpone the start of the 2020-21 season, in particular by anticipating players' paid holidays during the preparation period, the more we will be in a credible solution that should satisfy everyone. In this scenario, we could envisage making it possible for players to rest until the end of May 2020. They would resume in June if the pandemic is over by then, which is still uncertain, but let's say that this is the final date before considering other, more terrible solutions, and would play until early August. We would sell out all the competitions before 10/08/2020, so that we could resume a new…