Aulas ruled: Fournier was dismissed, Genesio promoted to head coach – Eurosport.fr

         
           Jean-Michel Aulas likes book, too, his little Christmas surprises. The president of Olympique Lyonnais announced in a statement released Thursday evening on the official website of his club, Hubert Fournier was relieved of his coaching duties in favor of his deputy, Bruno Genesio.
       

         
           
         
       

         The first decision reveals this press release, this is the end of the adventure Hubert Fournier as coach of the OL. It was long qu’Aulas had put pressure on his trainer, in an interview with our site December 4. The press OL does not however bother to mention the name of Fournier, nor does it specify how this separation.
       

Hubert Fournier with Lyon – AFP

         Just the Rhone club is content he recalled that “ OL first part of the season was well below the expectations of the club “. Consequently, the leaders decided to Lyon “ change the organization of the staff of the professional team “, starting with his head appoint Bruno Genesio, “ at least until the end of the season “.
       

         This takes office Monday, December 28, at the resumption of training Gones. He held the same day, a joint press conference with Jean-Michel Aulas, “ to clarify the contours of this new technical organization .” The arrival of one or more former players in the coaching staff, mentioned in recent days (Sonny Anderson? Cris?), Could be one of the ads during this intervention.
       

Bruno Genesio and Hubert Fournier (Lyon) – AFP

         Trained at the club, former player of the first team, Genesio had returned to OL as a member of the technical staff in 2005. He was one of the top aides of Hubert Fournier since arriving in the summer of 2014. Aulas therefore privileged the internal solution, inexpensive and less problematic in terms of adaptation, the arrival of a new French or foreign technician. The “ assumptions ” yet “ investigated ” in recent days, according to a club statement.
       

         Finally, it is the choice of the facility that has been done. It remains to see if Genesio, fleeting – and few successful – head coach of Villefranche-sur-Saône (1999-2001) and Besançon (2004-2005) in the lower divisions, will meet the challenge of entering the stadium and the race for second place.