Pierre Sage: “There are bound to be things that will change”
“The idea is to play on the training front to have habits and allow the players to get into a logic with rigor, intensity… This will reflect on the team. “
“There are necessarily things that will change. I have an angle in my convictions. This team will have a face based on my ideas, while taking into account the context. There will be no significant change. We must act on simple things. We don’t want to hustle for the sake of hustling.”
“My beliefs are simple: I like it when the team has the ball. This will be reflected in the direction we take. The idea will be to play the match on Saturday, at all levels.”
Pierre Sage: “I have no stake in this situation”
“I have no stake in this situation, it’s an advantage. I don’t want to think about myself, I just want to help the team. It’s mental freshness. If he There’s no tomorrow, that’s no problem.”
Pierre Sage: “A new thing for me”
“Saturday will be a new thing for me, I had never considered this. As I had never considered being the director of a training center. At the same time, things come up and so from time to time time I am asked for help, I give.”
Pierre Sage: “The idea is not to languish”
“We are all responsible for what we do. To be transparent, the group experienced a session postponement, it’s special. The players were not happy, we want to make them smile again, the idea is not is not to mope around.”
“The staff? We operate in a collegial manner and with the idea of having a professional organization to help the players. We want the team to be at its best. We have to rely on the people who are there. Way to show the players that the staff believes in it.”
Pierre Sage on his interim
“When the decision was made this morning, I focused on today. If on Saturday evening I was told that a new coach was arriving, I would be very happy for the club, I don’t think in the long term.”
“Textor? Information has been relayed. The current situation creates a rhythm that we must adopt. We have to manage daily life, move the team forward. It’s step by step.”
Pierre Sage: “My mission is to prepare for a future”
“The group needs to have very precise benchmarks, a certain stability. The players need to understand each other. My mission is to manage the daily life, and prepare a future for a future staff. (…) I don’t I don’t have a set plan. The idea is to move forward. I have an idea of what we need to do for Saturday’s match.”
Pierre Sage on his group
“The idea is not necessarily to have a very strong squad. There is merit. If things are not going well, I am not going to support them.”
Pierre Sage: “The players are very attentive”
“You have to have confidence and take initiatives. These two things are linked. We will have to put the players in a position to succeed in training. The players are very attentive. They have received the messages, they are studious.”
Pierre Sage on the match in Lens
“We have to prepare for our match in Lens. We have two training sessions, it’s not a lot for a lot of work. We have plenty of options. We will have to make choices. I came with ideas, and I’m adapting in the context of the team and the opponent. The idea is to respond to a requirement, not to please myself. We must be aware of what awaits us. We will focus on a few points.”
Pierre Sage: “It’s a duty to help”
“I said yes automatically. It’s a duty to help. I told the players. I have the ambition to help them. To rectify the situation. I reason on a daily basis. We had to act directly . We will do everything we can to make sure things go in the right direction.”
Pierre Sage: “It makes me weird”
“It’s strange to see me here, it makes me strange too. I’m going to try to be up to the task. I’m at the service of my club, I was called this morning to replace the coach at short notice with the staff in place. It’s difficult to take a step back from the situation, it’s a bit surprising.”
Pierre Sage will speak
In charge of the interim since the dismissal of Fabio Grosso and pending the appointment of a new coach at OL, Pierre Sage is expected at a press conference from 6:30 p.m.
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Two months and then gone. Appointed in September, Fabio Grosso is no longer the coach of Olympique Lyonnais in Ligue 1. If his departure is not yet official, the Italian technician was laid off this Thursday and Pierre Sage will take over as interim coach against Lens on Saturday during the 14th day of Ligue 1.
Ousted after just seven games on the Gones bench, Fabio Grosso became the most short-lived coach in the history of the Rhone club. The 2006 world champion, however, is not the only one to have had such a brief stint in the elite in recent years.
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Olympique Lyonnais has laid off Fabio Grosso and Pierre Sage will act as interim manager while awaiting the arrival of a new coach. The director of the Les Gones training center finds himself in the spotlight despite great experience working with young people.
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Behind the scenes of Grosso’s layoff
The second revolution of the season on the Lyon bench was quite lightning. Threatened since the new defeat against Lille (0-2) on Sunday, Fabio Grosso was fired this Thursday, just two months after his appointment.
Pierre Sage, director of the training center, will take over as interim training starting this Thursday afternoon. He will be supported by Jérémie Bréchet, Jean-François Vulliez and Rémy Vercoutre, a trio who had already sat on the bench after the ousting of Laurent Blanc in September.
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Last in Ligue 1 before their trip to Lens on Saturday, Lyon decided to dismiss Fabio Grosso and entrust the interim to Pierre Sage. The latter will be at a press conference this Thursday from 6:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. All the information in this live.