The end of the season is looming for AS Saint-Étienne and the club will have to decide on the experienced players who are at the end of their contract and in particular Hamouma, Debuchy and Monnet-Paquet.
With the sale of AS Saint-Étienne clearly under way, but not as quickly as some supporters had hoped, Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo will have to make sporting choices for next season. All this while meeting the requirements of Claude Puel, who knows the return sheet entrusted by its current leaders. Among the issues that the ASSE coach will have to resolve quickly, there is that of footballers who are coming to the end of their contract and who want to know if they will receive an extension offer from the Greens, or if they must find a new club. Of course, given the timing, it seems unlikely that the players who haven’t received anything will suddenly be ‘saved’ by Puel. But the Saint-Etienne coach has made it clear that a meeting is scheduled for next week with those whose engagement ends with Saint-Étienne.
Among these players, there are three who attract attention, since they allowed ASSE to get out of a big mess when the Forez club began to collapse in the standings, namely Romain Hamouma, Mathieu Debuchy and Kevin Monnet-Paquet. Before the trip to Lille, Claude Puel admitted that a meeting was imminent and even before the 38th matchday in Ligue 1. Asked about the players concerned, before the game in Lille, the Greens coach was cautious. ” You can imagine that I will speak to them before possibly speaking to you. We have a very important match to prepare and we will surely enter into discussions with different players next week. », Warned Claude Puel, history not to make believe that this subject is not sensitive for him. Even if we know that the Stéphanois coach is not hyper-sensitive, he nevertheless wants the players to be the first to be informed about his choices, even if they have probably understood that the exit was near.