Jean-Michel Aulas has responded to Corrine Diacre’s feedback in L’Équipe, that had accused him of being instrumental in her sacking as supervisor of the France girls’s crew.
Diacre had stated that her dismissal was influenced by Aulas changing into a extra influential determine inside the French Soccer Federation, claiming that “The cube have been loaded from the beginning.”
This was as a result of she claimed that she and the previous Olympique Lyonnais president and now vice chairman within the FFF had a tense relationship as a consequence of him wanting her to choose extra Lyon gamers in her nationwide crew setup. “I didn’t do what [Aulas] needed, what he anticipated relating to the gamers at his membership. I managed the France crew.”
Aulas has now responded to state that he performed no half in her sacking and that she was let go after the “Conclusions of an audit” that he had no function inside, and which had discovered “Critical deficiencies in administration, having led to robust tensions between the gamers and the supervisor, in addition to with all of her workers who have been rigorously questioned.”
The vice chairman continued, “The administration of Corrine Diacre has additionally led to an unprecedented state of affairs within the historical past of ladies’s soccer, forcing the most effective French gamers to refuse to play… just some months earlier than the 2023 World Cup.”
It seems as if there will likely be no detente between the 2 key figures in French soccer as their relationship continues to be performed out within the public discussion board.
GFFN | Nick Hartland