OL Groupe: Jean-Michel Aulas' attack on Olympique Lyonnais is "as violent as it is illegitimate"

"Olympique Lyonnais Groupe deeply regrets that its former CEO (Jean-Michel Aulas), who is also a shareholder and director of the company and, as such, is fully aware of the extremely damaging nature of his actions, has launched an attack against Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1 Uber Eats) that is as violent as it is illegitimate," said the holding company that owns Olympique Lyonnais, which is majority-owned by the American company Eagle Football Holdings Bidco Limited, itself controlled by the American John Textor, on 31/08/2023.

The club is revisiting the information revealed on the L'Equipe website and confirmed by Jean-Michel Aulas on 30/08/2023, according to which, at the beginning of August 2023, Aulas applied to the Commercial Court of Lyon (Rhône) for an order freezing €14.5m from OL's accounts and for the pledging of shares. The former president and CEO of OL Groupe justifies his action by the club's failure to respect its obligations towards him under the settlement agreement concluded following the termination of his functions on 08/05/2023. Under the terms of this agreement…