After managing to maintain the ASSE in Ligue 1, Claude Puel wants to approach the next season with much more serenity. The Saint Etienne coach therefore hopes to take advantage of this summer transfer window to improve his team. But it won’t take a helping hand from Angers SCO.
Claude Puel wants an Angers SCO midfielder
After Wajdi Kechrida (25), Tunisian right-back at the end of his contract with Etoile Sportive du Sahel, and Ghanaian international striker Caleb Ekuban (27), available for 4 million euros from Trabzonspor, AS Saint-Étienne is now aiming for a midfielder to strengthen the team of Claude Puel. If the name of Clément Grenier (30) was recently mentioned, the former player of Olympique Lyonnais, left free by Stade Rennais at the end of his contract, quickly reacted to deny a “Fake news”.
According to information from our colleagues at 10 Sport, the leaders of ASSE now eyeing Angers. Indeed, the sports media ensures that the Loire club is interested in the profile of the Angevin midfielder. Angelo Fulgini. Arriving in the summer of 2017 from Valenciennes for a check for 1.4 million euros, the 24-year-old has now gained weight in the transfer market after a successful last season. And the Angers SCO intend to rely on it in the upcoming talks for their central right midfielder.
ASSE mercato: Saïd Chabane refuses to sell off Angelo Fulgini
Besides AS Saint-Étienne, several other Ligue 1 clubs such as OGC Nice and AS Monaco have also inquired about Angelo Fulgini’s situation. All want to take advantage of the demotion as a precaution of the SCO to recover the former middle of the VAFC. Said Chabane being obliged to balance the accounts of his club before the July 12 hearing before the gendarme of French elite football.
However, the newspaper The team reveals that if some courtiers think that this situation will push the president of Angers to sell off his best players, it is badly to know Said Chabane. The sports daily indicates in particular that the decision of the DNCG “Will not encourage the SCO to sell faster” his best players. Although demoted as a precaution by the DNCG, the SCO Angers is waiting no less than 15 million euros to let Fulgini go, still under contract until 2023.