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Today in Krasnodar, Rémy Cabella discussed his time at ASSE and the reasons that prompted him to leave Saint-Etienne.
The adventure of Remy Cabella at Saint Etienne ended in the summer of 2019. Only a year after his final transfer, the French international decided to change his mind and join Krasnodar. A choice motivated by his desire to play in the Champions League as he explained last October. ” Initially, I was not planning to leave Saint-Étienne. I got this proposal from Krasnodar which, it’s true, made my head spin a little. My parents were not too much for my entourage either, because of preconceptions. Russia is scary, it’s far away, we don’t know what’s going on there. But I didn’t listen to anyone and I made my choice, alone. I have been selfish. I want to play the Champions League and I will do it »He said in an interview with France Football. This Monday, the media published new statements from Rémy Cabella. The player reconsiders at greater length his choice to leave theASSE.
“If the game hadn’t changed, I would never have thought of leaving”
“ Basically, this was not planned. I wanted to do my season with Saint-Étienne, we were in the Europa League. I had set myself the goal of going to the Champions League (…) We had a big team, there was Wahbi (Khazri), Yann (M’Vila), with Denis Bouanga who had just signed: it was going to be monstrous. Krasnodar was playing the Champions League qualification. I asked for a few days of reflection. But you also have to know one thing: in Saint-Étienne, the first year, when Jean-Louis Gasset arrived, I moved to a position where I was free, where the game went through me a lot. The second year, we had new players, but the game had changed a bit. In preparation, I felt it, I found that the game was going to pass through me less. It was different. In my head, I hadn’t liked it too much. It wasn’t that I was sad, but I felt like I wasn’t going to thrive, play my game less. It had put me off. And I had this proposal which made the choice like that. It clicked. If the game hadn’t changed, I would never have thought of leaving. You could have brought me any proposal, I would have stayed. But the fact of feeling less useful, of doing less what I wanted in the game, I was not well in my head ” said Remy Cabella.