In these troubled times for AS Saint-Etienne, which has just chained six defeats in the league, many regret the absence of a captain in defense to lead the young troop of Claude Puel. A captain like Loïc Perrin, who hung up his spikes at 35 on the evening of the Coupe de France final against PSG (0-1) on July 24. Final which he played only half an hour before his expulsion following a missed tackle on Kylian Mbappé. Only, the former central defender had made the decision long before the final to stop there. He revealed it on the set of the Club ASSE program on TL7 last night.
“I had not warned Claude Puel”
“I knew that this Coupe de France final would be my last match,” Perrin said in remarks transcribed by the site En Vert et Contre Tous. I had warned Roland Romeyer the week before, after the match against Anderlecht. J I have a special relationship with Roland, he was my manager when I was in the reserve team. We followed each other during all these years, he followed my career. We didn’t always agree on everything, but I have a lot of respect for him and he has a lot of respect for me. It will continue like this. “
“I had not warned Claude Puel. I had not necessarily planned to tell him, I did not really know when and how to do it. When he told me three days before that I was going to play the final, I Warned him then. I had made up my mind a little while ago. When I started the 2019-20 season, there was a 99% chance that it would be my last season. I knew that, I had not announced it, I was waiting. And then there was the Covid-19, the end of the season, I did not necessarily want to end like that. I had the possibility of doing the Coupe de France to finish the season and resuming training in June, I told myself that I would stop after the final of the Coupe de France. “
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