The two presidents of AS Saint-Etienne announced last week that they were putting the Greens on sale. From Monday, the audit firm in charge of the file receives the offers.
It was in a climate made tense for 48 hours by the King Street fiasco on the Bordeaux side that the leaders of AS Saint-Etienne decided to formalize their choice to sell the Forez club last week. To succeed in this operation, and to prevent the future of the Greens from being in danger, Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo have decided to entrust the sale mandate not to an investment bank, as he had done three years ago. during the failed negotiations with Peak 6, but to an audit firm. According to Le Progrès, it is in fact the prestigious company KPMG which is in charge of studying the offers to buy from ASSE. Based in the Netherlands, KPMG is one of the world leaders in auditing, in France, this company thus certifies the accounts of companies such as Carrefour, Veolia, Orange. In other words, the two bosses of AS Saint-Etienne want the future owner of Sainté to be serious and not just a dream seller.
It is therefore the audit company that will take the lead in the sale of ASSE by studying the offers, starting this Monday. ” From next week, KPMG’s Paris offices will be responsible for receiving interested buyers in order to sort out those who are serious and those who are less so. », Specifies the regional daily. A priori, the Greens buyout files are not numerous, Olivier Guichard recalling that for the moment, two investment funds, including one in Switzerland, are ready to buy AS Saint-Etienne, plus an assembly carried out by businesses in the Saint-Etienne region, a file led by Olivier Markarian, even if the latter did not wish to speak on this subject. However, on the side of Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo, we do not seem to believe too much in this local track. In any case, it is in 48 hours, for Paris, that the future of AS Saint-Etienne will begin to take a turn.