Puel will keep power to recruit, Aulas said

Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas leapt to the defence of his coach Claude Puel, saying the former Lille boss will enjoy 100% control over player recruitment.

Aulas said: “No matter what happens this season he will enjoy 100% responsibility for player recruitment over the three seasons left on his contract. How can people talk about placing him under ‘surveillance’ when apart from Makoun and Piquionne he wasn’t responsible for choosing players last summer”.

“It’s because he wasn’t involved in recruiting that we don’t have the quality in our play right now that everybody hoped for.”