OL: Jean-Michel Aulas talks about his relationship with Benjamin Mendy

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Published July 24, 2018 at 5:00 by T.M.

In recent months, it was heated between Benjamin Mendy and Jean-Michel Aulas. And while it would have calmed down on the occasion of the World Cup, the president of the OL evoked his relation with the player of Manchester City.

Whereas the rivalry between the supporters of OL and the OM is huge, it became even worse with the final of the Europa League between the club and Marseille Atlético Madrid played in the Gones stadium. Former player OM, Benjamin Mendy had added oil on fire on social networks. However, between the two men, it seems to have calmed down. Indeed, on the occasion of the World Cup, Mendy and Aulas had posed together on social networks. Is the hatchet buried?

"We were not angry"

In an interview with L'Equipe Jean-Michel Aulas came back to his relationship with Benjamin Mendy . The president of OL then confessed: " I am reconciled with Benjamin Mendy? We were not angry. There, I discussed with players that I did not know as (Adil) Rami, Benjamin (Pavard). And they are good guys. I say it all the more easily as I had a privileged relationship with the ex-Lyonnais, as it was not necessarily the case with others … And in the locker room after the quarter or semifinal, Benjamin said to me: "Are we going to make a selfie?" If it was me who asked for it, we would have found it more political … (laughs). He and Adil both wanted to communicate to the outside and that was a symbol of what happened next. Even those who did not play did not negatively influence the group or coach. When Adil explained that he would have been afraid to come home so much was going well … Everything is said. This is the success of the players but it is also the great success of Didier and Christmas to have created these conditions ".