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AS Saint-Etienne is going for a training course in Brittany on Wednesday, and Claude Puel has left some players at Etrat. The message is clear to them.
Claude Puel can be criticized for a lot of things, but not for procrastinating at the time of choice, even if it means being seen as a rather brutal coach in terms of human relations. After a straightforward management of the Stéphane Ruffier case, the coach of AS Saint-Etienne warned several players last week that they had to find a new club under penalty of following the 2020-2021 season in the stands of Geoffroy- Guichard. A strong choice insofar as the Greens concerned are the most experienced and the most expensive for the club of Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo. And as if this one-on-one announcement was not enough, Claude Puel decided to deprive the players concerned, namely Yann M’Vila, Ryad Boudebouz and Wahbi Khazri of the short internship that ASSE begins this Wednesday, knowing that Stéphane Ruffier is definitively dismissed after having refused to be the understudy of Jessy Moulin.
As Le Progrès points out, the message conveyed by Claude Puel is absolutely clear despite his ruthlessness. “Claude Puel has called up a group of 24 players which do not include Stéphane Ruffier, Yann M’Vila, Ryad Boudebouz and Wahbi Khazri. His choices confirm the will of the Stéphanois general manager to reduce his group by first inviting the big salaries in the locker room to find a point of fall (…) The big laundry launched by Claude Puel, who wants to put young people at the heart of his project has started… The second part of the transfer window, which begins on Saturday for ten weeks, could be animated in the direction of departures, ”explains the regional daily. The leaders of AS Saint-Etienne know what to expect, even if it will not be easy to find clubs for players whose salaries are comfortable in Forez and who still have a contract.
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