In search of a real center-forward during this summer transfer window, Claude Puel’s AS Saint-Etienne may well find his happiness in the Belgian championship.
Following a complicated last season, marked by a seventeenth final place in Ligue 1, the Forez club will be keen to catch up in the 2020-2021 financial year. If the ASSE dreams above all of starting off on the right foot, after the health crisis of the Covid-19, by winning the final of the Coupe de France against the PSG next July, Claude Puel thinks above all of next season. During this one, the French coach hopes to rest on a quality number 9. Disappointed by the performance of Wahbi Khazri or Loïs Diony, and despite the emergence of young Charles Abi, Puel wants to recruit a real goalscorer during the transfer window. And while the first tracks are long overdue, the ScoreNigeria media announces that ASSE is taking a close interest in Terem Moffi.
After exploding in Lithuanian D1 at Riteriai, where he scored 20 goals in 29 games, the 21-year-old was transferred to Kortrijk last winter. Author of 10 goals in 16 games before the coronavirus crisis, the Nigerian striker made an impression in Belgium. So much so that Puel wants to bring him to Sainté. Moffi is in any case open to this idea: “I chose Belgium because I can get into the big leagues faster. France or Spain, we will see ». But to succeed in this case estimated at 2 million euros, the Greens must first of all get rid of a big competition, led by Reims, Lorient, Rennes, Anderlecht or Galatasaray.