ASSE has taken care to scrupulously respect the Labor Code in this area. After receiving him in the company of François-Xavier Luce, administrative and financial director of the Greens, Xavier Thuilot, director general of services, had to wait for an incompressible period of at least two working days before sending him the club’s decision by letter registered with acknowledgment of receipt. According to an internal source, this letter would have gone.
Internal policy issues
What does it contain? In view of the media coverage taken by this affair, it is difficult to see the club backtracking by not dismissing Ruffier for serious misconduct – delay in training and refusal to participate in an opposition seven against seven with young people. Grievances that remain to be proven. And even if they were well founded, the sanction would appear disproportionate. When Wesley Fofana arrived forty minutes late to board the plane to the Greens in Lviv, Ukraine (November 6, 2019), he was not fired. He even started the next day against Oleksandria (2-2), in the Europa League.
Except that the Ruffier affair contains outlines of internal politics. If the club claims to speak with one voice on this issue which spoils the image of the Greens, a division would exist between supporters of a hard line (Thuilot) and disciples of more flexibility (Romeyer, chairman of the board). The content of this letter will thus make it possible to gauge the current state of the balance of power within the club.