Peter Bosz starts his new adventure at Olympique Lyon in good spirits. The trainer refuses to abandon his philosophy after being fired from Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen. “I told the group: ‘If there’s one thing I hate, it’s cowardly players. Dare!'” Bosz told the newspaper. General Newspaper. “‘Making mistakes is allowed. In the beginning we will make mistakes in how we want to play, learn from that.'”
Although Bosz already speaks French well thanks to his time as a player at Toulon, he and his three Dutch assistants receive extra lessons to learn the language. “The teacher said this week: ‘I don’t understand football, could I watch your training sometime?'”, Bosz recalls. “She thought: if I hear how you talk, what terms are used, then I can help you even better. I think it’s beautiful, something like that. Good of her. Communication is your most important weapon as a trainer. And especially if you are new somewhere. are.”
The biggest challenge for Bosz will be to make up for the lack of Memphis Depay, who went to Barcelona on a free transfer. “You will have to compensate for his twenty goals and seventeen assists,” says Bosz. “In principle, Moussa Dembele is his replacement. That boy was previously bought from Celtic for 22 million euros and was leased to Atlético Madrid for six months from January.” Furthermore, Lyon is still negotiating with Ajax about André Onana, the intended new goalkeeper of Bosz.
Lyon will play two exhibition games directly in succession on Saturday, against Villefranche and VfL Wolfsburg. “With two matches I can give all my selection players seventy minutes,” Bosz explains. “That fits in with the structure of the preparation. It also offers opportunities for nine talents from our own youth academy. They train with us during the preparation.” Bosz knows what is expected of him in France. “They say: ‘You have to perform. We want your youth to fit in, because this is a club that prides itself on its youth academy. And we have to play attacking football.'”
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