While waiting to strengthen its first team, the ASSE will welcome new promising young players to its training center. According to Evect, two offensive players are expected at the Robert-Herbin Center before the opening of next season.
ASSE: 2 reinforcements expected, 2 professional contracts in the pipeline
ASSE is true to its plan to promote talented young players. To do this, the club is always on the lookout for any opportunities. According to the website close to supporters of the Loire club, two players from RC Joinville are expected to join the AS Saint-Étienne Football Academy. It is Meivyn Agelisas and Yanis Mimoun.
The first is a winger and the second is an attacking midfielder. The source understands they will drop their bags off at ASSE during the summer transfer window, “at the start” of the new season (2021-2022). Still concerning young players within the Saint-Etienne reserve, Goal Football Club announced that Ahmed Sidibé (19) and Abdoulaye Bakayoko (18) are about to sign their first professional contracts.
In search of future Saliba and Wesley Fofana
In lack of significant financial means to strengthen its first team, ASSE aims for nuggets which it will then polish in its training center before integrating them into its first team. This project dear to coach Claude Puel is the find to avoid expensive transfers. This policy will allow the club to make on the other hand beautiful transfers similar to those of Willam Saliba at Arsenal and Wesley Fofana at Leicester City.
The two central defenders trained at the Academy of the Greens of AS Saint-Étienne were respectively sold for € 30 million and € 35 million excluding bonus.