Lyon coach Gerard Houllier has quit the six-time French champions.
Houllier won the title and the French Super Cup in each of his two seasons at the Stade Gerland and reached the Champions League last eight in 2006.
The Frenchman previously spent six years at Liverpool between 1998 and 2004 when he won six trophies, including a cup treble in 2001.
And Houllier, 59, who has also coached France, Lens and Paris St Germain, has been linked with a return to England.
He has been mentioned as a potential successor to Stuart Pearce at Manchester City and a move to Dynamo Kiev has also been rumoured.
While he was reportedly in the running for the Newcastle job before Sam Allardyce took the helm.
Houllier maintained Lyon's domestic supremacy but failed to match that on the European stage.
After an unbeaten group campaign this season they fell at the first hurdle in the knock-out stages to Roma.
While last season, having again come out unbeaten and on top in a group including Real Madrid, they crushed PSV Eindhoven before falling to AC Milan in the quarter-finals.
Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas had stated that he would endeavour to keep Houllier on board but seemed to be preparing for every eventuality last week.
Aulas said last Sunday in remarks reported by L'Equipe: "A good president must have foresight.
"I don't envisage the departure of Gerard Houllier but I have planned ahead with the board and I will not be deprived."作者: 艾力克 時間: 2007-5-25 11:08 PM
會唔會係佢教都悶啦~成日都拎聯賽第一作者: ronja 時間: 2007-5-26 10:02 AM
曼城明年咪有機會攞英超??作者: chicken 時間: 2007-5-26 10:54 AM
Teaching Lyon is so easy, I really want to see who will be the manager that cannot manage Lyon to win French champion.作者: amigofans 時間: 2007-5-26 11:40 AM
Originally posted by mikeycwebb at 2007-5-25 11:19 PM:
唔知里昂會唔會因此而出現球星逃亡潮...