Jean-Michel Aulas has certainly not finished his media marathon, far from it. On Wednesday evening, on RMC, the president of OL appeared extremely combative, saying: “There is a desire on the part of the L 1 clubs to go to appeal against the State on the initiative of Bernard Caïazzo (president of Saint-Etienne), which allows them to be grouped together in this action. All the clubs will say that if there is one responsible, it is the state. From the moment it is the State which has issued the order to stop the championship (April 28 through the voice of Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe), its responsibility is engaged and it is necessary to go to claim the 800 M € of probable deficit for the current year. “
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“Perhaps that is why the minister (from Sports, Roxana Maracineanu) says it was not the government that made the decision “, added Aulas, continuing: “This case is not very“ clean ”, because it is the law which comes to say the right a posteriori after the decisions are taken, to give reason to the Leagues and the Federations to have changed the regulation which said go to the 38th day to award the titles and all of the European qualifications, downhill and uphill. “
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In addition, he considered that French football was entitled to benefit from total tax exemptions as for the other disadvantaged sectors: “Football is not part of it, whereas it should, like travel agencies or event companies, be able to benefit from this measure. It is a request that I formulate so that the clubs reduce this fantastic deficit. The state, if it is the state that made the decision to stop the championship, should allow us to benefit from it. “
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