Concentrated on the semi-final of the Coupe de France against Rennes this Wednesday evening, AS Saint-Etienne is yet a new faith plunged into crisis.
The sports results are not at the rendezvous with a surprising battle to avoid relegation to Ligue 2. This was not why Claude Puel and many players with successful charts had settled in Forez. But it’s always complicated management that has to be paid for, and the two club leaders are singled out by Romain Molina. The journalist thus described in a video the main problem of the Greens, and it is based on the wobbly association between Roland Romeyer, passionate about ASSE and its history and a leader close to supporters and players, and Bernard Caïazzo, who manages the club at a distance from Paris, where he has other concerns.
” This duo of presidents, made up of Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo, is quite unique. You can talk to any agent, intermediary or sports director, everyone laughs at the management of Saint-Etienne. Because honestly, it’s a mix between DSK and Bozo the clown. On the one hand you have a president whose football is absolutely not the priority, on the other hand the business around football, the petit fours, etc, that there is no problem. And on the other hand you have someone who reacted as a fan. At the same time, there is a two-headed direction and all this is very political because the two have a completely opposite vision of football. It can therefore hardly work in the long term. They never agree on anything, Romeyer has his people at the club, Caïazzo has his people at the club, which means that there is an internal rivalry that does not go smoothly. Saint-Etienne is a colander, everything comes out in the press. It is not only the fault of the two presidents but since there is so much internal friction with people who seek to screw others, it is a colander not possible since no one is pulling in the same direction “, summarized Romain Molina. A system thus decried, but which has nevertheless worked for years, and sometimes with success as can be seen from the repeated presence of the Greens in the European Cup.