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Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: the debrief of the match against FC Metz

We can not say that Robert Beric went dead hand with Claude Puel. In early March, the former ASSE striker explained that he had no hook at all with his former coach before being pushed out in early 2020.

“Everything was going well at Sainté, I signed a 3-year extension in February 2019. Then we had bad results and Ghislain Printant unfortunately had to leave. Claude Puel arrived at the beginning of October with a completely different project, which many players, including me, were not part of, released the Slovenian striker in early March in France Football. He told me he wanted a fast forward, who could dribble and do whatever more, and that he wanted to build the future around Charles Abi. I replied that there was no reason for me to stay, that I did not want to sit on the bench for months with a contract until 2022. I took his words as a lack of respect. I accept that I’m not part of a coach’s plans, it’s football. But I didn’t like the way … “

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Beric is already slamming in Chicago

Since then, the ASSE coach has responded to Beric at a press conference in a rather minimalist manner. The former Greens scorer swung the knife in the wound as he slammed a first goal in his first friendly game with the Chicago Fire. A foxing goal from the surfaces, which seems to be lacking in Puel this season …