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So far, we cannot really say that they have convinced. Leaving, on the contrary, observers and supporters of the Greens in the greatest expectation. We are talking about Jacques Pauly, businessman from the Gers, and Laurent Roussey, a well-known figure in the Green House as a player (striker from 1977 to 1983) and coach (2006-2008). Tandem which is not really at its first approach to try to buy the ASSE.

Owner of the Jason group, specializing in the organization of conferences around the world, Jacques Pauly, aged 77, has for ages having signed in 2009 a memorandum of understanding with Roland Romeyer to take 40% of the shares of the ASSE. As such, he claims to have deposited 400 million euros in a bank branch in Haute-Loire, a sum which would have soared and which has since given rise to three legal complaints.

Jacques Pauly was rejected each time, pushing from the Saint-Etienne club to react, as was the case during its last press conference last March “AS Saint-Etienne deplores successive attempts at destabilization in at the precise moment when the club is confronted with major economic and sporting challenges. Thus, Jacques Pauly and Laurent Roussey have embarked on a new harmful and malicious approach by summoning the media to a press conference intended to maintain the illusion of a Pharaonic takeover project. An absurd press conference. “

While ASSE, as you know, is officially for sale, and the KPMG group is supposed to collect solid files, Jacques Pauly and Laurent Roussey, for their part, want to be quick and hit hard. By proving, finally …, that they have the necessary funds for the future of the Forézien club. Thus, the two men will summon the media to a new press conference on June 24, in a hotel in Saint-Etienne. And could then give the name or names of those who support him financially.

In addition, Jacques Pauly would also have the intention to buy the shares of Adao Carvalho, entrepreneur from the Saint-Etienne region and shareholder of the club up to 22%, whose shares have been confiscated by the State since 2016 via AGRASC. , the agency for the management and recovery of seized and confiscated assets. The press conference is likely to be lively.