Removed for several months from the workforce of ASSE, undesirable in the Forez, Stéphane Ruffier lives complicated times. The historic goalkeeper of the Greens has seen the door closed to a return to the workforce of Claude Puel, but can count on the support of a former Green for whom the goalkeeper’s situation is incomprehensible.
The treatment of Ruffier by ASSE disturbs
One thing is certain, Stephane Ruffier has become, in a few weeks, more than undesirable to theASSE. The 34-year-old goalkeeper will probably not play again in the jersey of AS Saint-Etienne, who tried by all means to find him a way out during the summer transfer window. An expected time at Dijon FCO, Ruffier ultimately refused to be transferred there and is now chomping at the bit. In the meantime, the Greens have chained three consecutive defeats in Ligue 1, against Stade Rennais, in Lens and against OGC Nice. Lately, the performances of the one who replaced him as number 1 in Saint-Etienne goals, Jessy Moulin, have been criticized, but Claude Puel did not wish to reopen the debate, closing the door, probably definitively, to a return by Ruffier.
Jérôme Alonzo does not understand what Ruffier is going through
This summer, behavioral problems led to a layoff of Stephane Ruffier. For the former goalkeeper of the Greens who became a consultant, Jerome Alonzo, which has more than a hundred matches with ASSE between 1997 and 2001, the handling of this case is abnormal, as he explained in the columns of the Progress. “Unlike some of my colleagues who were very violent with Stéphane Ruffier, I have the weakness to think that he is a huge goalkeeper,” said Alonzo. Believing that the goalkeeper of ASSE had perhaps “been less well” for a brief moment during the 2019-2020 season, the goalkeeper also passed by the PSG judges the treatment reserved to Ruffier “unjust. It is an immense mess for ASSE “, he added, acknowledging that” the treatment of this [le] disturbs. “Alonzo does not think that Ruffier” is a junk, as one wants it to be believed “, while recognizing that the purely sporting decision rests with Claude Puel.” It is up to them to deal with that now “, concluded the former porter of the Greens.
By Matthew
Posted on October 21, 2020 at 4:00 PM |
updated on October 21, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.