Grégory Coupet no longer being the Lyon goalkeepers’ coach, it is Fabrice Grange, his AS Saint-Etienne counterpart, who should replace him.
Chance is sometimes curious since it was at AS Saint-Etienne that Olympique Lyonnais went to look for Grégory Coupet in 1997 to install him in his goals. But this Wednesday, the story between OL and the man who had been Anthony Lopes’s coach for two years ended, his contract having not been renewed. And it is still on the ASSE side that Jean-Michel Aulas very strongly plans to draw the new technician in charge of goalkeepers for Olympique Lyonnais.
Indeed, L’Equipe claims that Grégory Coupet, now in Dijon, should be replaced by Fabrice Grange, who took care of Stéphane Ruffier and Jessy Moulin with the Greens and who had started his career as a professional goalkeeper in Lyon. It is true that on the side of the Saint Etienne gatekeepers, the situation is very complicated, Ruffier having had a very hard time becoming number 2, Claude Puel pushing him unceremoniously. What obviously encourage Fabrice Grance to change his tune, the Moulin-Ruffier rivalry promising to be explosive in 2020-2021. For the moment, OL and ASSE have not reacted to this rumor, even if the file seems to be very well advanced, this choice obviously being able to cause a few small eddies.