The media are impatiently awaiting Stéphane Ruffier’s words. On the set of L’Equipe, Jérôme Alonzo asked the former porter of the Greens to balance his version of the story concerning his exclusion from the professional group of ASSE and especially to evoke his relationship with Claude Puel.
“We’re not in the locker room, we don’t have all the ins and outs. But if Stéphane Ruffier was a bad guy, if 15 people told me he was a bad guy, I would have known for 20 years. In the industry, when there are bad guys, we know them. Stéphane is not one of them, and I have nothing to sell, he is not a friend. This story bothers me a lot because he is a quality goalkeeper who still had three, four or five good seasons to offer at a good club in Ligue 1, “said the consultant on the set of La Chaîne L’Equipe.
“Sportingly, I don’t think Saint-Etienne has found it. It’s nebulous. And he was a player who brought you back to the forefront almost on his own. It was still 10, 12 or 13 points per season, revealed the former goaltender. Claude Puel defends his steak by saying: “I fulfilled my role as manager by removing from the group a player who was doing harm.” It’s not his type, but I can’t wait for Stéphane to tell us his truth one day. “