Now excluded from Claude Puel’s group, Stéphane Ruffier would no longer say no to a departure from AS Saint-Etienne. But under certain conditions.
If Nicolas Anelka arrived this Wednesday on Netflix, Stéphane Ruffier gives grain to grind for a future series on the American platform. After some turmoil at the start of the year, the relationship between the experienced goalkeeper and AS Saint-Etienne turned to carnage as football resumed in France. At first promised a brutal dismissal, for a delay in training, Stéphane Ruffier was prevented from entering the Etrat by a bailiff. A week later, after an interview with his employers, while awaiting his dismissal, Stéphane Ruffier was sanctioned for only one week. But this time it was the Saint Etienne doorman who took control of the soap opera by telling Claude Puel that he refused to be Jessy Moulin’s understudy, which earned him a rather logical sidelining from the group.
However, on the ASSE side, Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo are aware that during his last year of contract Stéphane Ruffier will therefore be paid not to play. And at 4ME per year gross, that makes the spectator dear to Geoffroy-Guichard. So, on the Greens’ side, we would be prepared to pay part of Ruffier’s salary if he finds a new club. Because if the 33-year-old goalkeeper initially refused the idea of leaving the Greens, that would no longer be the case, says RMC. So, thanks to this possible payment of part of his salary by AS Saint-Etienne, Stéphane Ruffier will probably see other doors open than those of Turkish clubs. A win-win deal seems possible.