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ASSE management is raising its tone, via a press release this Friday, on revelations that the club is on the verge of bankruptcy.
The team say more this Friday on the finances of ASSE. Sports daily reports that Greens were counting on eighth place in League 1 in order to balance their scores, but 17th place in the standings, after the season ended, would be a game-changer. The Stéphanois should register a deficit of 14M €, a debt that would no longer allow the club to assume the entire payroll (37.5M €). TheASSE would like to divide it by two, with several transfers during the summer transfer window. Claude Puel, coach of Saint Etienne, would request the departure of seven players in priority (Me, Diony, Boudebouz, Khazri, Kolodziejczak, Palencia, Trauco). Several thorny cases are also under investigation, including the future of Stephane Ruffier. Worst, Mediapart made a catastrophic assessment of the finances of Greens, the latter being on the verge of bankruptcy. But’ASSE pushes a huge rant, following this information, with a press release published on the official website.
“ASSE denies the information published concerning its financial situation. They seriously harm the club ”
” AS Saint-Etienne categorically denies the information published by certain media concerning its financial situation which remains under control despite the crisis, which our accounting experts can demonstrate. It also deplores the erroneous and misleading interpretation of confidential and anonymized documents emanating from the Professional Football League (LFP). This false information and the comments associated with its dissemination seriously harm the club which therefore intends, as the LFP did, to file a complaint to protect its interests. In addition, in this period of unprecedented health and economic crisis, ASSE can only regret manipulations that are as irresponsible as inadmissible. The club is already reassuring its environment (supporters, partners, communities, banks, insurance, other clubs, players, agents, etc.) on the merits of the measures it has taken to ensure its sustainability and allow to cope with the exceptional situation encountered by all players in professional football. ASSE finally recalls that it is the only Ligue 1 Conforama club to have presented balanced accounts during the past nine seasons, thus constituting comfortable equity “, Writes theASSE.