Largest recruit in the history of AS Saint-Etienne, Lois Diony is also its biggest fiasco.
The center forward has never managed to find the rhythm in the Stéphane attack, despite the passage of different coaches. In the end, it was 9 goals scored in 64 games, and a presence that quickly became sporadic. Lack of form, lack of desire, physical decline or level too low, the explanations often advanced are not suitable for the person concerned. Lois Diony returned to Le Progrès on this failed passage, and the one now playing in Angers assures us that he did everything to hang on and succeed at Saint-Etienne, but nothing was done.
” When it doesn’t work, it doesn’t. When the charger is empty, do not try to charge it, to reconnect. That’s what Sainté and I did. We wanted to force. Over the three years, each time I am the one who takes the steps to leave. When I sign, after a month under Oscar Garcia, I already wanted to leave. And that, no one said. I remember the chance, deserved, that I had to play in Saint-Étienne. I am honored. They said I sucked even though I was playing a good game and not scoring. After that, I always got high for the team. I have always wet the jersey and that no one will be able to take away from me. I could have let it go. I’m proud of it “, Underlined a Lois Diony who remains convinced that it would have been good to cut the bridges between him and AS Saint-Etienne much earlier. But with his salary and his performance, finding him a way out has also been very difficult in recent years.