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In an interview granted this Sunday to RTL, Claude Le Roy made crisp revelations about the coaching career of Claude Puel, who has been at the head of AS Saint-Etienne since October 2019.
The 73-year-old technician, who coached Shanghai from 2001 to 2003, revealed Claude Puel was the Chinese club’s number 1 pick at the time and turned down a staggering offer. “When I arrived in China, I saw my salary figures on the contract. It’s something I would never have dared to ask. Happy to discover China, I sign but I learn in it. ‘afternoon that it was not me they wanted at first, it was Claude Puel. Came four days before me, he finally refused and returned to France. Me, I was the wheel of Help. Since then, every time I meet Claude Puel, I tell him “I will never stop saying thank you”. “
🗣 “It wasn’t me at all they wanted, it was Claude Puel!”
𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝘆’s brilliant anecdote about his adventure in China. pic.twitter.com/h62y2piQAz
– RTLFoot (@RTLFoot) May 30, 2021