Only 16th in Ligue 1, AS Saint-Etienne has had a more than complicated start to the season.
After having started the season very well, the Greens are in great difficulty and have only 2 unfortunate small points ahead of Lorient, 18th. While ASSE receives Lille on Sunday evening, Claude Puel is under pressure. For Mathieu Debuchy, the solution goes through recruits in the transfer window. With only 11 goals scored since the start of the championship, it is especially in the offensive area that the Stéphanois seem to need reinforcements. And according to the Spanish press, the leaders have targeted an old acquaintance who has already been coveted in 2007 and 2017: Bojan Krkić.
Trained at FC Barcelona, the Spaniard was quickly announced as a future crack. Still, the small striker never managed to confirm the huge expectations placed on him. After leaving Barça in 2011, Bojan went on to flop in many European clubs: AC Milan, AS Roma, Ajax, Stoke … He finally landed in MLS in 2019, at the Montreal Impact more precisely. Author of 4 achievements this season, the Spaniard received an offer of contract extension from his leaders but has not yet decided. And for good reason, the former “future Messi” would have been approached by ASSE according to Sport. In search of offensive reinforcement, the Stéphanois would welcome the arrival of a player who nevertheless has some high level experience. It remains to be seen whether the Greens’ proposal will push Bojan to leave Canadian life to come and settle in Forez …