Sidelined since the start of the season, AS Saint-Etienne goalkeeper Stéphane Ruffier is not making the job of coach Claude Puel any easier. From there to judge the goalkeeper guilty of the poor results of the Greens …
The war is far from over between AS Saint-Etienne and Stéphane Ruffier. Once again, the iconic goalkeeper of the Greens has been dismissed as a precaution. The Stéphanois club, which no longer knows how to push its unwanted towards the exit, accuses him of a ” act of insubordination “. What many denounce as a real relentlessness against the former Monegasque. But for his part, Christian Sarramagna rather condemns the behavior of the porter, according to him a symbol of the general lack of respect in the world of football.
” This is no longer the world that I have known, regretted the ex-Stéphanois on France Bleu. Today, when I see everything that is going on in the statements of the players, in the statements of the agents… I have the impression that they are not all the same people. Before, there was a president, there was a coach that we respected, there were players who gave their all on the pitch. But now it feels like as soon as there is something wrong, everything has to be called into question. “
“Of course it’s shocking! “
” A player, as soon as he doesn’t play, he has to make a statement against the coach because “it’s not normal that he doesn’t play me”. I am referring to Stéphane Ruffier in Saint-Etienne, Sarramagna said. It saddens me because that is not professionalism. Ruffier? Of course this is shocking! After that, we shouldn’t be surprised at the repercussions that this can have on the club, on the coach, on the dressing room, on the performance of the players … You cannot know how to prepare for the matches. Ruffier would therefore be partly responsible for ASSE’s seven consecutive Ligue 1 defeats …