While the 2020-2021 financial year is going badly for AS Saint-Etienne, spirits are already on the summer transfer window and next season.
During the final sprint, the Forez club have little or nothing to play. With four small points ahead of the red zone, ASSE will just have to save its skin in Ligue 1, which will not be so easy with matches against PSG, OM or LOSC during the eight last days. Despite everything, the Greens still have a quieter mind than Lorient, Nîmes or Nantes. So that’s why Sainté’s followers are already looking ahead to next season. Regarding the construction of the future workforce, Denis Balbir believes that Claude Puel must clean up, and in particular with the loaned players.
“ASSE cannot keep an attacker who does not score”
“Six ASSE players are coming to the end of their contract or the end of their loan by June 30. In my opinion, we should consider keeping some. Everyone knows my affection for Romain Hamouma. Despite his irregularity due to injuries, I would give him the extra time he expects. Hamouma still has to bring to Saint-Etienne, if only through his involvement. Regarding Mathieu Debuchy, I understand that one can wonder. We are talking about a 35-year-old player who plays a very physically demanding full-back position. Now we’re still talking about the ASSE captain. Not to extend the wearer of the armband, after the retirement of Loïc Perrin last year, that would be illogical. For Kévin Monnet-Paquet, I am somewhat of the same opinion. Of course, we are talking about a player who suffered two serious injuries in quick succession. On the management side, there are inevitably some reservations. If the physical follows, it must be prolonged. You’re going to tell me that I want to keep everyone, but I don’t. I wouldn’t keep any of the three loaned players. Panagiotis Retsos was injured. It is difficult to be able to judge him. In this position, there will undoubtedly be other blows to make in the 2021 offseason. Today, the defensive sector of Saint-Etienne is sick and the club needs to find great players or real hopes. French football. Pope Abu Cisse is not one of them. Finally, concerning Anthony Modeste, on loan from Cologne, the figures unfortunately speak for him. Looking coldly, ASSE cannot keep an attacker who does not score “, launched the consultant of Goal, who confirms that ASSE has had it all wrong with the transfer window in recent months …