Today the announcement of the new coach. Fonseca starts again from Lyon. A contract until 2027 is ready

Only the official confirmation is missing, but according to L'Equipe Paulo Fonseca he can already be considered the new coach of theOlympique Lyonnais. Just a month after losing the Rossoneri bench with the dismissal at the end of 2024, the 51-year-old Portuguese coach will already be in Lyon to sign the contract that will tie him to the French team for two and a half years, until June 2027.

The former Milan player will replace the sacked Pierre Sage, coach fired after the draw with Nantes. Sage has paid dearly for the decline of recent weeks: first the sensational elimination in the French Cup against the amateurs of Bourgoin following the defeat against Brest, then the subsequent draws with Fenerbahce in the Europa League and Toulouse and Nantes in the league, with OL slipping to sixth place with 30 points after 19 games.

Fonseca will have in his staff Antonio Ferreira (goalkeeping coach), Paulo Mourao (athletic coach) and Nelson Duarte (match analyst) who have already worked with him at Lille and Milan.

La Ligue 1 It's nothing new for the former Milan coach: he led Lille for two seasons before joining the Diavolo, achieving a fifth and fourth place in the French championship. Last season he reached the quarter-finals of the Conference League.