AS Saint-Etienne : A big international soon at ASSE, Puel’s idea | ASSE News

This is info from foot.01.com. On the verge of recruiting the playmaker who left PSG at the end of the contract Adil Aouchiche, AS Saint-Etienne is still looking for his happiness in his offensive animation.

The proof, Claude Puel works on the arrival of Youssef Belaïli. This 28-year-old Algerian playmaker is in deep cold with his club Al-Ahli SC, since he experienced all the pain in the world to return to the Saudi Arabian championship, ensuring that sanitary conditions were not not respected at the heart of the Covid-19 crisis, before missing his return flight. After much torment, the Fennec with 17 selections agreed to return to the club in the city of Jeddah, provided they have the assurance of its leaders to find a base in Europe. And that would be a good start since, according to the Algerian Competition media, an exchange offer would be studied, without specifying the content in financial terms, or of the player brought to join the Saudi championship.

Real offer or pressure from an agent, everything is still possible in this dossier which promises to be complex in any case, the player maintaining a sulfurous relationship with his club Al-Ahli. In addition to this, two other teams, Nîmes and Galatasaray, are monitoring Belaïli and hope to give a real chance in Europe to the one who signed at Angers in September 2017, but had only stayed a few months without playing SCO before leaving for Tunisia. A chaotic course therefore, but the playmaker certainly stayed in the sights of several recruiters, especially during his performances at the 2019 African Cup of Nations, where he participated in the coronation of the Fennecs with two important goals scored in the competition, against Senegal in the pool and against Guinea in the 1/8 finals.