TheASSE has laid off Stéphane Ruffier since last week. It will be heard this Wednesday, December 2. Before the hearing of the goalkeeper excluded from the Saint-Etienne professional group, Claude Puel made a big statement about him.
Puel: “No one is left out, I count on everyone”
Stéphane Ruffier has not made an appearance in the ASSE squad since February 2020. Dismissed by Claude Puel who does not count on him, the goalkeeper was invited from the Loire club last summer. Despite everything, he decided to stay at theAS Saint-Etienne until the end of the contract on June 30, 2021. A decision that has not changed anything for the general manager and coach of the Greens. Indeed, the latter always trusts Jessy Moulin, the N ° 1, and Stefan Bajic, its lining. As for Stéphane Ruffier, he has been arrested more than once on disciplinary grounds. Since Wednesday, November 25, he has still been “laid off as a precaution for an act of insubordination”. He is suddenly summoned to an interview on Wednesday, December 2.
But a few hours before the 34-year-old goalkeeper was heard, Claude Puel made an announcement that suggests a possible return to favor for the latter. According to him, no player is left out. “No one is left out, there are no young or old,” he blurted out in Progress. “Let’s stop focusing! When you see another team, do you ask if there are young and old? By acting in this way, we tend to oppose them “, railed the coach of ASSE, before concluding with this announcement:” I count on everyone “. Everyone including Stéphane Ruffier? Let’s wait and see.
ASSE: unwanted people have found playing time
It should be remembered for all intents and purposes that players who were also pushed out last summer: Harold Moukoudi, Nelson Sissoko, Miguel Trauco, Wahbi Khazri and Ryad Boudebouz have regained, one after the other, playing time. winter transfer window should nevertheless be lively in Forez, where departures are expected among the players cited, while ASSE is looking for a central defender and a scorer, at least.
By ALEXIS