A stormy meeting took place in a small committee at the Etrat training center last Friday, with a very lively update from Claude Puel.
The coach appointed during the fall is clearly no longer tired of AS Saint-Etienne’s mode of operation. And he turned against the man who did everything to get him to come: Roland Romeyer. Bored by the interventionism of the president of the Greens, Claude Puel made it very clear to him that he had to leave him the controls of the sporting sector, and not to interfere any more with the daily decisions. In this meeting where Bernard Caïazzo, chairman of the supervisory board, and Xavier Thuilot, managing director, were also present, Roland Romeyer was clearly told that he had to leave the sports and contractual decisions to Puel and Thuilot, without which these the last two would leave at the end of the season.
A threat that has, according to L’Equipe, struck down the president and co-shareholder of AS Saint-Etienne, who did not expect to be put against the wall at all. However, his attitude raises questions, as when he took advantage of the absence of certain leaders who left for Paris to work at the LFP on the Coronavirus crisis and the calendar, in order to quickly extend Charles Abi by bringing his agent in. any discretion. Roland Romeyer has always had this ability to meddle in the sports sector, but by appointing Claude Puel at a very high level, since he offered him a place on the Management Board, the aim was obviously to leave room and decisions to specialists , which he obviously can’t do.