The ASSE manager commented on Wesley Fofana’s hasty departure from the summer transfer window the previous season.
In an interview with the newspaper The team this Wednesday, Claude Puel returned to the complicated season of the Greens, marked by the surprise departure of Wesley Fofana at the very end of the transfer window. After a great start and a first place in the championship, the Stéphanois collapsed before finally finishing 11th. A lesser evil seen the difficult season experienced by Saint-Etienne. A situation due in particular to the hasty departure of young Wesley Fofana, who signed with Leicester against a check for 35 million euros.
“We had a great start to the season but the loss of Fofana, which was necessary, changed something and with the loss of the broadcaster, the pandemic, what could we do? It was necessary to ensure the wages of the employees and to have a speech of truth ”, details Claude Puel. Hoping that the Greens will have learned the lesson …