Faced with serious financial difficulties, AS Saint-Etienne expects to experience a complicated transfer window, especially with the Stéphane Ruffier and Loïc Perrin files in the background.
If the emblematic goalkeeper of the Greens still refuses to leave ASSE a year from the end of his lease, despite his falling out with Claude Puel, the captain of Saint-Etienne, he does not yet know what will be the future. At the end of the contract next June, the central defender, who spent 17 years with the pros in Saint-Etienne, had to hang up the crampons at the end of this 2019-2020 season. The 34-year-old even had a retraining, since he had to join the marketing department of the Forez club. Yes, but now, despite this proposal for administrative work, Perrin, he finally sees himself on the ground until 2021. Annoyed by the premature end of Ligue 1, which prevented him from saying goodbye to the public of Chaudron, and given the fact that he has not played since last February, Perrin has asked for a one-season extension.
A request validated by supporters and management, except Claude Puel. Despite Perrin’s great popularity, the Stéphanois coach knows that his player is on the downward slope, between his knee and hip injuries. For Puel, a Perrin extension would make no sporting sense. And according to information from the Parisian, the man of a single club may well announce his retirement anonymously. “Puel and Perrin talked to each other and agreed to allow time for reflection. Puel would like Perrin to announce publicly himself that he made the decision to hang up the crampons “, admitted the national daily, which knows that Puel does not intend to include Perrin in its workforce for the 2020-2021 season. One more thorn in the side of the Greens …