As in most Ligue 1 clubs, the transfer window looks particularly difficult to manage on the Saint-Etienne side this summer.
And for good reason, the finances of the Greens were undermined by the Covid-19 crisis. In Forez as elsewhere in France, it will certainly be necessary to sell before buying. In this sense, we learned a few days ago that the Stéphane management is considering a sale of Wesley Fofana abroad in order to replenish the boxes. In the defensive sector, another case caused a lot of reaction last week, that of Loïc Perrin. At the end of the contract, the emblematic ASSE captain was originally to bow out at the end of the season, but the premature end of the championship upset his plans.
Now he wants to extend. And although Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo tend to agree on the principle, the two presidents of Saint-Etienne, however, defer to Claude Puel. The ASSE manager is the final decision-maker for the Greens during the transfer window, as Bernard Caïazzo made official in remarks granted to France Bleu. “It will all depend on his physical condition,” said the coach. And Roland Romeyer (the chairman of the executive board, editor’s note) thinks the same. At ASSE, the coach decides. Decisions are taken by the management board. It all depends on Loïc’s physique. And I agree with this vision “ said the chairman of the supervisory board, clearly making Claude Puel the strongman of the sports sector and of the next Saint-Etienne transfer window. The former manager of Leicester and Southampton demanded no less, he who wishes to upset the workforce of Stéphane by rejuvenating him considerably in the weeks to come.