A bitter ending. In an interview with The Team, Anthony Lopez he vented and expressed his frustration regarding his demotion in Lyon. Raised in the French club, the Portuguese international was ousted by Lucas Perri and does not seem to understand Pierre Sage’s decision, also claiming to have rejected some important offers in the last transfer window.
Lopes is convinced that he would have left if the club had clarified its position during the summer: “I had transfer opportunities at the beginning of the transfer window. Especially one, in a big European team. Honestly it wasn’t my goal at that time. moment to be number 2, but my choice would have been different if they had contacted me at the end of August.”
L’Équipe itself revealed the identity of this “great European team”: it is the Liverpool by Arne Slot, who therefore wanted to make Anthony Lopes deputy Alisson (and from next season deputy Mamardashvili). The divorce between Anthony Lopes and Olympique Lyon is now close and will materialize at the end of the season, or perhaps in January: the 34-year-old has already thanked the Lyon ultras for their banner in which they reproached the management for the “humiliation” inflicted on a symbolic player of recent years.