Olympique Lyonnais: "Statutory auditors to certify financial statements" (Eagle Football Group)

"Eagle Football Group's statutory auditors intend to issue an unqualified opinion and to certify Eagle Football Group's new parent company and consolidated financial statements at 30/06/2024," said the company that owns Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1 McDonald's) on 27/01/2025.

On 06/11/2024, at the time of the presentation of the financial statements of the company headed by the American John Textor for the 2023-24 financial year, these same auditors had in fact invoked the impossibility of certifying the accounts as they stood, due to the lack of "sufficient evidence to express an opinion on the reasonableness of the various assumptions". This position was one of the factors used by the DNCG a few days later to sanction OL by imposing a wage bill limit and a recruitment ban (decisions upheld on appeal on 10/01/2025), in addition to a precautionary relegation at the end of the current season.

While the figures presented in the income statement and balance sheet are unchanged from last November's publication, Eagle Football Group highlighted three financial milestones achieved since…