Olympique de Lyonnais’ Claude Puel and Lisandro Lopez attracting interest from Seville
La Liga outfit Seville are reportedly chasing French Ligue 1 side Olympique de Lyonnais’ coach Claude Puel and striker Lisandro Lopez.
It is expected that the French giants may lose two key figures in the summer 2011 transfer window as Seville search for a new coach and a quality striker after the end of the current 2010-11 season.
According to a local Seville paper, it is rumoured that current manager of Seville, Gregorio Manzano may be asked to leave the side in order to make way for Claude Puel who is the Ligue 1’s most respected and experienced manager.
Furthermore, it is understood that the Los Nervionenses are not happy with Manzano as the team has not performed well under him and could may well part company with the 54-year-old. Seville are currently lying in 8th place in the La Liga and it
seems that they would not be able to qualify for Europe.
Seville rate Puel highly and have marked him their top priority as they look to re-build the side that has not impressed at all in the current season. It is also expected that the 49-year-old Frenchman will choose to leave the former French champions after
the end of the season despite the fact that the club president Jean-Michel Aulas said that he would not leave Lyon.
Furthermore, Seville are also tracking Argentine striker Lisandro Lopez from the same club as they look to bolster their striking options due to the imminent departure of Luis http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabiano-c13129 in the summer.
It is believed that the Spanish directors consider the former Porto man as the perfect replacement and have been monitoring his progress for a long time.
Lisandro signed for Lyon from Porto in 2009 and still has two more years left in his contract so he may not come for cheap and Seville may have to dig deep in their pockets in order to lure the 28-year-old away from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899.
Moreover, the South American has become a key figure in the Lyon side and Seville will surely find it hard to sign the player who is highly thought of in Lyon.
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