TheASSE was in serious financial difficulty in recent months and had to cut down on the summer transfer window to stay afloat. Without the sale of Wesley fofana, the club could “have filed for bankruptcy at the end of the season”, according to David Berger, journalist on Canal +. And if the Greens did not sink, it may be thanks to his former coach, Jean-Louis Gasset.
Jean-Louis Gasset responsible for the financial pit of ASSE?
On the ASSE bench from the end of 2017 to May 2019, Jean-Louis Gasset has been held responsible for the recent financial situation of the Greens. His signatures, players paid a full price, have dug holes in the club’s accounts, as explained Claude Puel last October. “The club was going into the wall, said the coach of theAS Saint-Etienne. He was in debt to follow this pattern, which had lived. My job is not to say if what has been done is good or not, but to establish an observation and to make a projection. I’ve built a new project for the club, not for myself. “
Words that had pushed the current coach of Girondins of Bordeaux to react. “I recall the context: when the presidents ask me to take the team, they are 17th in ten games without a win and lost 5-0 in the home derby, recalled Jean-Louis Gasset. I told the presidents that we need to strengthen the team. Then we had to find men. Men I knew, of course. They came to lend a hand … We lost two games in six months and made a series of 13 games without defeat. “ASSE had come a long way and had even won a qualification in Europa League.
The former coach will have brought in 100 million euros to ASSE
However, as specified Goal!, the passage of Jean-Louis Gasset also had a positive financial impact. “We started William saliba, Wesley fofana, Charles Abi … “, added the Bordeaux coach. Almost 70 million euros in cumulative sales with the first two cities, left for Arsenal and Leicester City. To this must be added the transfer of Rémy Cabella to Rubin Kazan for 13 million euros, as well as another check for the same amount for TV rights to the Europa League. In total, with the 800,000 euros from the sale of Jorginho to Ludogorets, the total is close to 100 million. nice jackpot for ASSE.
But Jean-Louis Gasset, who had promised to swing on Sainté before the match against his team, preferred to talk about his good memories of Saint-Etienne. “In 35 years, I have only known three clubs with such an atmosphere: Montpellier, Paris and Saint Etienne. At ASSE, I only stayed eighteen months but I had an incredible human adventure with an audience like there are not many in Europe, “said Gasset at a press conference, before the meeting of this Wednesday evening (9 p.m.), for the 15th day of League 1.
By Matthew