Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: the best statements of the year 2020
When ASSE bet on Panagiotis Retsos to replace the departure of Wesley Fofana last October, during the last hours of the summer Mercato, she knew she was taking a risk given the Greek’s business card. Talented but often injured in recent seasons, the former Olympiakos player, bought € 17m by Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2017, had played very little in 2019-20, either in Germany or Sheffield United, where he had only played one game when he was on loan. A fragility that the defender has unfortunately confirmed since he joined ASSE, with only 4 matches played in nearly six months. A situation on which the player confided in the Greek site Eyap. “I’m fine now,” he said. This adductor injury was painful, but now I am training normally. I am at a good level. I have my family, my friends and the medical team by my side. They help me out ”.
“It would not be a bad choice to continue in Saint-Etienne”
At 22, Retsos therefore hopes to have finally eaten his black bread and find pleasure on the pitch. For that, he will need to find a place in a defense that has been rather satisfactory since the start of the year before conceding 5 goals in the last two days. “What concerns me now is to be completely well and to be able to participate in a lot of matches,” he said. Before discussing his future … “I still have a year and a half contract with Leverkusen, a club that I really like. If I hadn’t had an injury there, I might not be in France today. But the past is the past. The coach decided that I should continue elsewhere on loan. Of course, here in France, they like me a lot and I was surprised by the infrastructure and the championship, so it wouldn’t be a bad choice to continue with Saint Etienne. “At € 6 million the purchase option, given the club’s current finances, we can however assume that it would take a great end of the Greek season for ASSE to consider a final transfer. First step: to find a place in the group, he who was not even on the bench in Lorient (1-2) and against Lens (2-3), while he was operational …
“The roadmap is winding” according to the general manager of the Greens #ASSE https://t.co/6bqrOS0n07
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