Sixteenth in Ligue 1 with two points ahead of eighteenth place, Saint-Etienne is paying a missed recruiting this summer.
Apart from Denis Bouanga, who arrived from Nîmes, no recruit has really brought satisfaction since the start of the season. This proves that David Wantier, head of the ASSE recruitment cell, is responsible for the Greens’ current fiasco. This is at least the very clear opinion expressed by Denis Balbir on his blog, published on the site of But Football Club. For the journalist, it is obvious that Saint-Etienne has stacked the average players, closer to the Ligue 2 level than to the European Cup level, like Loïs Diony or Jean-Eudes Aholou and Franck Honorat. They will appreciate…
“For me, the primary fault lies with the recruitment cell. It was extremely rare as rarely in the offseason. The only good thing that was done was Denis Bouanga. A player who had already been recommended to them for three years. For a cell made up of five people, that’s not much. David Wantier must look in a mirror and tell himself that he has sealed the club. You have to say things as they are. He took very well paid players. Even if I do not question his seriousness, a player like Cabaye comes from the United Arab Emirates where he no longer played… There are players who have arrived, like Jean-Eudes Aholou or others, and who are very average . Franck Honorat is a good player … But to play the maintenance. Not all of these players have the level to wear the green jersey. When we see that it is Diony who is the big satisfaction of this end of the season and that we expect him to get us out of the mud, it is that there is a problem “ ruled Denis Balbir, for whom it is obvious that Saint-Etienne is weighed down by his bad choices during the transfer window.