Forced to sell in order to balance its accounts and consider the transfer window with serenity, Saint-Etienne will not retain Denis Bouanga, nor Wesley Fofana.
The Greens’ top goalscorer and the 20-year-old defenseman are by far the two highest-rated ASSE players on the transfer market. The Gabonese figure in the viewfinder of Rennes, Bétis Seville and Lille. For his part, Wesley Fofana has a hell of a rating in England, but also in Germany. And to believe the information from Madeinfoot, negotiations are underway between Saint-Etienne and Red Bull Leipzig for the transfer of the French defender, to whom Claude Puel wishes to give the keys to green defense next season.
For the media, a transfer around 20 ME is discussed between the management of AS Saint-Etienne and those of Red Bull Leipzig, specialists in the art of recruiting young French people with high potential for several years (Mukiele, Nkunku , Upamecano, Augustin, Konaté). Convinced by the potential of Wesley Fofana, Red Bull Leizpig would like to be able to count on the player trained at ASSE next season. Which does absolutely not help the Greens since the media tells us that Saint-Etienne would have liked to sell Wesley Fofana, while recovering it for a year in the form of a loan in the image of the deal that had been agreed with Arsenal for William Saliba who will join the Gunners this summer. It remains to be seen whether Leipzig will increase its offer in order to convince Saint-Etienne to drop Wesley Fofana from the summer transfer window in 2020. If so, then RB Leipzig could hold its future central defender, which would no doubt lead the German club to drop the track leading to Tanguy Kouassi from Paris Saint-Germain.