Like all Ligue 1 clubs, Saint-Etienne is facing an unprecedented financial crisis.
In question, the matches behind closed doors and the crisis of TV rights have considerably melted the economies of professional clubs. At the Stade de Reims, we have already organized to counter this financial crisis with a drop in salaries until June on the part of all players. A similar measure could be applied to Saint-Etienne, with nevertheless a major difference according to information from Radio Scoop. The regional media understands that President Roland Romeyer has the firm intention of reinstating the famous salary-cap, which was used at ASSE until the departure of Christophe Galtier in July 2017.
At the time, the salaries of AS Saint-Etienne players were capped at 90,000 euros per month without bonuses. “This salary cap could be reinstated at ASSE. In any case, this is the wish of President Roland Romeyer. The reason is obviously financial: in the near future, the club will no longer be able to support the emoluments of certain players, considered “enormous” by the management board “ explains the media, which however believes that it will be difficult to apply this salary cap in the very short term. And for good reason, the contracts of certain executives of Claude Puel’s workforce run until June 2023, and it will obviously be impossible to lower those salaries. This is particularly the case of Denis Bouanga, Harold Moukoudi and Gabriel Silva. As for Wahbi Khazri, Ryad Boudebouz and Miguel Trauco, they are linked to the Greens until 2022. The idea of the salary-cap is very present in the heads of the leaders of ASSE, but will not be applied immediately …