The Icelandic international and former Lyon Olympics Sara Gunnarsdottir (now at Juventus) denounced the French club for delaying the payment of wages for the first two months after the start of her maternity leave and also regretted not being paid after the third month, as explained in a column from ‘The Players Tribune’.
“Vincent Ponsot (the club’s general manager) apologized for the two months he didn’t pay me and assured me that they would pay me. But he said something about them following French law, which means they don’t owe me anything. Dietmar , My agent kept telling them: ‘Hey, you’re always in debt.’ But we got no answer. Weeks turned into months and I still don’t have my full salary today. Lyon refused to give a clear answer about the criteria applied. “Finally, Dietmar told Vincent that Fifpro would fight it in FIFA level. Then Vicente said: ‘If Sara goes to FIFA with this, she has no future at Lyon,'” explained Gunnarsdottir.
Gunnarsdottir explained that her return, after having her son Ragnar, was not welcomed: “Part of me wanted to go back and tell everyone how angry I was at what they did. And leave. But then I thought come back and give it 110% all. I thought, ‘I’m going to show them how fit I am.’ I’m ready to play, but it’s not what I expected. The training was different when I came back. They treated me differently.”
The Juventus player also explained that the president of the club, Jean-Michel Aulas, could not cope either: “He entered the room (in a meeting with Ponsot) while I was there. It was the first time he saw me since I came back with my baby. He didn’t even greet me. Vincent (Ponsot) just assured me, five minutes before, that my case was “not personal”. However, from there, with the president, it became clear . is so.”
Gunnarsdottir finally explained how Lyon broke up with her. “I asked Vincent Ponsot what he told Dietmar about the fact that if he goes to FIFA he has no future at Lyon. He said he didn’t say that, and the coach, Sonia Bompastor, decided that he could . ‘t see me. as a future player on her team. She was so exhausted from all these fights… It is clear that no matter what people say, the main thing is there: as a young mother, I have no future at the club that this. .”
Source: La Verdad
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