AS Saint-Etienne : ASSE: Saliba absent against PSG, a defender arrives urgently | ASSE News

Despite negotiations started, interrupted and then resumed, ASSE and Arsenal should not find an agreement.

Saint-Etienne will have to do without William Saliba, who will not see his loan extended by one month, the conditions having not been agreed given the enormous stake and economic interest in this single match . For the final of the Coupe de France, with Loïc Perrin who has toiled all season, the Greens are therefore in a very delicate situation. So the solution comes from England. In fact, ASSE wanted to recall Harold Moukoudi, loaned in January to Middlesbrough with some success. The former Le Havre has convinced in English D2, but he will return to Forez to lend a hand, as confided by the manager of Boro Neil Warnock, disgusted to see his central defender, whom he sometimes used as a medium field, leave before the end of the season in England.

We tried to recover it until the end of the season. He has a cup final and they wanted him for that. In all honesty, he wanted to stay and help us but we had no choice. We were lucky to have it for two or three games. He was just getting in shape. It’s like that “Said eating from Middlesbrough to TeesideLive, who can only bow to the will of AS Saint-Etienne to recover their central defender. Reinforcement obviously requested by Claude Puel, who is looking for the right association to counter the PSG armada in the final of the Coupe de France, and will be clearly tempted to try all solutions by then.