With Stéphane Ruffier, Ryad Boudebouz remains the last ASSE player not to have been reinstated by Claude Puel, despite a rather convincing friendlies campaign. A setting aside which Loïc Perrin, the former captain of the Greens, was surprised this evening at the microphone of France Bleu Hérault, the day after the new defeat of ASSE against Montpellier (0-1). “Saint-Etienne finds himself playing with young people,” said Perrin, in remarks transcribed by Poteaux Carrés. Geoffrey (Dernis) recalled yesterday when commenting on the match that experience was very important. Today, we don’t necessarily have it in Saint-Etienne. I hope that Claude Puel will call on Ryad Boudebouz. We know how it works these episodes of transfer window, “I leave, I do not leave”. What I see is that Ryad has stayed, he is part of the group. We have a real Ligue 1 player. He had ups and downs last year, even he knows it. But we have a real Ligue 1 player and he is available. Why not use it? It is heavy for any player and it is not easy for the teammates who are there and accompany him on a daily basis. This is not the first time that this has happened, I know this kind of situation, it is not obvious. “
“If there had been more experienced players on the Stéphanois side yesterday, the result could have been different”
A very clear position taken on the part of the new retiree. Overall, Perrin regretted the lack of experience of the current group. “I think there is really quality in Saint-Etienne, we saw it with sales from Saliba and Fofana. We won the Gambardella not too long ago. We have good young people but they need to be supervised. If you put one, two or three youngsters in a team with experienced L1 players, it will always be easier. The problem is that we do the opposite in Saint-Etienne: there are three or four experienced players around young players. We cannot ask young people to win, to revolutionize everything. If there had been more experienced players on the Stéphanois side yesterday, the result could have been different. We don’t manage matches and emotions in the same way when we have 300 Ligue 1 matches or 3 Ligue 1 matches! “