22 November 2020 at 12:20 by Thomas
TheASSE sinks into Ligue 1. The Greens conceded yesterday Saturday in Brest (1-4), a seventh consecutive defeat in the French league. This is a record, sad for the club and those who support it. Claude Puel, architect of the collective and captain of the Saint-Etienne ship, on the edge of the field is the first pointed out by the observers. Some regretting the choices made on the transfer market, by the Tarn technician and his partners.
230 M € excluding bonuses invested for reinforcements of Claude Puel
In Saint-Etienne, Claude Puel saw his prerogatives extended, from sports management to the management and recruitment of players. It is not in Forez that he has the most important resources, since the start of his career as a technician, following a player’s first. In total, depending on the platform Transfermarkt, Claude Puel’s CV is worth 230 million euros in the transfer window. Understand that this is the cumulative amount of reinforcements he has had at his disposal, from AS Monaco where he started, to Sainté now, via Lille, Lyon, Nice, Southampton and Leicester. And this, without taking into account any bonuses in each transaction.
At Leicester superior means in his career
This is only an estimate of the whole, moreover because Claude Puel began his coaching role at the very end of the last century at a time of less importance for data. However, there are more than sixty paid transfers to Claude Puel. And much more to the addition of loans and free recruited players. James Maddison, from Norwich to Leicester in 2018, and his most expensive transfer at 25 million euros, ahead of Lisandro Lopez when he was at Lyon; the Gones had invested 24 million, for the Argentine striker.
The coach of ASSe behind those of PSG, OL and OM
Among the twenty coaches of Ligue 1, season 2020-21, three exceed Puel in spending for them, on the market: Thomas Tuchel (PSG) in the lead, with 581 million cumulative, ahead of Rudi Garcia (OL, 488 M €) and André Villas-Boas (OM, € 463 million). Christophe Galtier, a former member of the Saint-Etienne house today at LOSC, follows Puel at 222 M €, ahead of Niko Kovac of AS Monaco, at 217 M €.