Laurent Blanc has not been officially fired yet, but his working hours are numbered. Since the heavy defeat against Paris Saint-Germain at the Groupama Stadium (1-4), the management of Olympique Lyonnais has been working to find a successor to Laurent Blanc, who arrived less than a year ago. Several names of replacements have already been floated, such as Marcelo Gallardo, Thiago Motta, Will Still or even Graham Potter, but all have refused to join the OL. For various reasons.
And from then on, John Texter was expected to find new names quickly, with one specification: that they be English-speaking, preferably. The names of free Julen Lopetegui and Olivier Glasner have been floated since their departure from Wolverhampton. The Austrian coach is free from any contract after leaving Frankfurt this summer. But the shortlist doesn’t stop there as Olympique Lyonnais are now keeping an eye on 45-year-old Italian technician Gennaro Gattuso.
Gennaro Gattuso is interested
Agent Jorge Mendes, close to John Textor, who had already kept Chelsea’s young striker Diego Moreira (19) this summer, offered him to Olympique Lyonnais. Discussions are planned between Gennaro Gattuso’s squad and the OL board in the coming days. For his part, the Italian technician would be ready to continue his coaching career on the Lyon bench, having already been approached by Saudi Arabia this summer.
After taking over the reins of FC Sion as coach in 2013, he joined Palermo, Crete (Greece), then AC Milan and Napoli, taking over from AC Milan legend Carlo Ancelotti. Italian adventures that were not really decisive. Gennaro Gattuso was named coach of Valencia last season, but his adventure in Spain was short-lived as his contract will expire by mutual agreement at the end of January 2023, while Valencia sit fourteenth in La Liga.
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