In recent weeks, AS Saint-Etienne has been put up for sale by Roland Romeyer, who no longer conceals his fatigue at the head of the club. What if a former member of the Green House took up the torch?
Even if the will of Bernard Caïazzo, co-president of ASSE, is still unclear, Roland Romeyer, he intends to leave his post as chairman of the management board of Sainté at the end of the season. The best for him would be to leave the Greens through the front door by selling his shares to a new investor. For the past few days, a takeover project has been in preparation at Olivier Markarian, CEO of the company Markal, who would be at the head of a group of regional buyers. But he is not alone on the matter. Since according to information from L’Equipe, a foreign investment fund is also a candidate for the takeover of ASSE. Investors from North America could therefore land in the Cauldron with… Mathieu Bodmer in their luggage. Roland Romeyer would in any case already know. Passed by Saint-Etienne in 2013, the former midfielder was indeed approached by this fund to carry out this buyout project.
Bodmer future sports director of Sainté?
Unemployed since February 8 and the closure of the Téléfoot channel, the 38-year-old is still deeply into football. It is also thanks to his good interventions at the microphone of Mediapro that the consultant was spotted by these foreign investors. Not motivated by the idea of continuing to work in the media, Bodmer wants to work in the sports sector of a club. And so it is in Sainté that he could bounce back. If this buyout project sees the light of day, Bodmer would then become the sporting director of the Greens. Behind the scenes, he would even begin to build his future team. With Mohamed El Kharraze, potentially director of the recruitment unit. But without Claude Puel. Indeed, Bodmer would no longer want the current coach, preferring Laurent Batlles (Troyes) or Stéphane Dumont (David Guion’s assistant in Reims). Either way, Bodmer could therefore return to French football through the front door at a historic club. A project that should appeal to Saint-Etienne supporters, even if we still need to know more about the will and the financial capacity of new investors.