Pushed out in January 2020, former AS Saint-Etienne striker Robert Beric (29) has still not digested the management of coach Claude Puel. Indeed, the attacker told France Football that he did not appreciate the way the coach of the Greens handled his case, especially after the victory in the Rhône derby against Lyon in October 2019 (1-0), a match of which he was the only scorer.
“I thought my season was on. But the next four or five games, I don’t play anymore. I decide to go and ask him for an explanation, and he tells me that he doesn’t like the kind of striker. that I am, and that he doesn’t see me in his team. He was very direct. He told me that he wanted a fast forward, who could dribble and do whatever more, and that he wanted to build the future around Charles Abi (…) I told him 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 accept the fact of not being part of a coach’s plans, it’s football. But I didn’t like the way (…) From what I experienced in training he gave the impression of being emotionless. He would arrive at the start of the sessions like a dictator telling us to do this and that, without ever smiling. It is a very different way of working than I do. had known with Ghislain Printant, Jean-Louis Gasset or with any coach before him. Puel seems difficult to live with “, told the Slovenian for the French daily.