With the Rhone giants in financial turmoil, coach Remi Garde could be set to lose the services of some of his star players including Hugo Loris and Michel Bastos
Failure to qualify for Champions league football this campaign has put the future of the seven-time Ligue 1 Champions in serious jeopardy. Players of Les Gones are grieved by the uncertain situation and many are seriously pondering over their respective
futures at the club.
Although by any standards, the Lyon team’s recently concluded 2011/2012 campaign cannot be deemed as a complete failure keeping in view their Coupe de France triumph and the runners up slot in Coupe de La Ligue. However, failure to make it to the biggest
stage of Europe has led the players considering a second thought on their destined playing options.
With the likes of Kim Kallstorm and Ederson having already left the folds of the team this summer , few other highly-rated players of the French outfit are poised to leave sooner rather than later. Hugo Lloris and Michel Bastos are the likely prominent figures
to leave the State de Gerland this summer.
Whilst Hugo Loris has been cautious in front of the press, Michel Bastos has openly expressed his desire to leave the side he has spent three years with .It was not simply his desire but according to pundits, the Brazilian International is simply not happy
at the club anymore when at the end of the campaign he said ‘Last summer, it was said that I was going to leave and I'm still here.’
With various Serie A heavyweights closely monitoring the 29-year-old, another prominent Lyon man gripped in transfer gossip this summer is their goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris.
The French International has drawn great interest from Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan but the English outfit is in pole position to land the talented custodian, should the man at the helm of all controversies, Luka Modric, opts for a move to Santiago Bernabeau.
According to the management at Lyon, “Sometimes one is obliged to sell certain players and there are people who will surely be leaving the club.” It has become pretty obvious that Les Gones don’t want to stand in the way of a player who has shown so much
loyalty to the club. Indeed, the club is willing to cash in on the star player this summer.
As if this was not enough, another highly-rated centre back of the French outfit who could well make a move away is Dejan Lovren. According to reports in Le Parisien, AS Roma are keeping tabs on the talented center back to bolster their defensive ranks.
Even though there is no official bid for the Croatian International, according to the Lyon president, Jean-Michel Aulas, a principled amount of twenty million Euros is to be met by the potential clubs in the market, to acquire the signature of the Croatian.
Although Lyon are on the verge of losing out on their star players, the revenue that could be generated from the potential sales of these players could really bring a blessing in disguise for the club currently in a state of financial chaos . The transfers
need to be done in an efficient manner to make the maximum out of the worth of these talented stars.
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