AS Saint-Etienne is the subject of numerous requests from investors, and the chairman of the supervisory board admits that the sale is not a taboo subject.
At a time when the eventual takeover of Olympique de Marseille is giving rise to a rather incredible soap opera, AS Saint-Etienne seems quite removed from it all. However, speaking this Monday in Le Progrès, Bernard Caïazzo admits that the Greens are crumbling under the demands of investors, and the president of the Supervisory Board of ASSE admits that Roland Romeyer and he are not saying no to a passage of witness gently. The Premier League president first thinks of the rise of an investor in Sainté in order to ” test Before leaving him in charge of AS Saint-Etienne.
And Bernard Caïazzo admits that this dossier of a possible sale or at least the arrival of financial support was not a pipe dream, but on the contrary very concrete. ” Not a week ago or someone serious, or not, is inquiring. It’s simple, everything happens first with a lawyer. We do not publicize. Our lawyers are responsible for analyzing the seriousness of our interlocutors. We were very, very close to doing it a year ago with an American band. No one ever knew the name of the group due to the confidentiality rule. At the last moment, it stumbled over a number of things. And then the sale of Saliba came to solve a lot of problems financially. We are not in an active search. If someone wants to get into the capital, a bit like Paris FC, that’s fine. We are looking more for a minority investor at first to see how it goes for a few years. But we have to think about the future. We are not immortal with Roland. Thinking of the future means protecting the institution “, Explains the co-president of AS Saint-Etienne in the regional daily. It is now necessary to know how the supporters of ASSE will welcome a possible exotic investor, the Green People being attached to local values.