The championship is not yet finished and Saint-Etienne, 17th, is not yet saved. Even if the coronavirus pandemic could permanently stop the championship.
Anyway, ASSE is already preparing for next season. Coach Claude Puel would also like to trim a workforce that he considers too large.
According to But Football Club, the technician would like to push no less than 11 players towards the exit during the next transfer window, including certain executives of the team. Among them, goalkeeper Stéphane Ruffier, already put aside by his coach for several weeks, but also Yann M’Vila who recently criticized him on social networks, or Loïs Diony.
Without forgetting the young Harold Moukoudi and Alpha Sissoko, respectively loaned to Middlesbrough and Puy (N1), Jean-Eudes Aholou, who will return to Monaco, the side players Gabriel Silva, Miguel Trauco and Sergi Palencia, or Assane Diousse and Leo Lacroix ( end of contract).
A sacred cut in perspective in the hope of being able to unlock the wage bill to recruit …