Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: Laurent Hess’s edit on the ghost Wahbi Khazri
According to Romain Molina, if AS Saint-Etienne successfully crossed the DNCG milestone, even posting a positive result, it is because it has committed to selling two players this summer. Among his bankable players, Claude Puel would rather see his big experienced salaries than his young nuggets. Denis Bouanga, even if he is only 26 years old, appears in the first category.
The Gabonese striker was recently surveyed by Olympique de Marseille, a club of which he has always been a fan and against whom he has often made good matches (he had in particular put the Marseille rearguard to death with Nîmes in summer 2018 at Costières). Only, according to the journalist of 10 Sport Alexis Bernard, ASSE would have claimed 20 M € for his player! A price that obviously cooled Pablo Longoria, who would have moved on. Twenty million, that could have possibly been the right price for Bouanga last year, after a good first season with the Greens. But since then, there has been the health crisis and a 2020/21 fiscal year for the Gabonese, whose odds have halved according to Transfermarkt …
EXCLUDED @ le10sport : For Bouanga, ASSE claims (hang on, it’s tingling) 20 million euros
Interested, OM smiled and went his way
If a club puts 20, Puel wants Ferhat to succeed him (transfer less than 5 M €) https://t.co/ECPass0iKt
– Alexis BERNARD (@ AlexisBernard10) July 15, 2021
ASSE reportedly asked € 20 million for Bouanga
At Olympique de Marseille, which was interested in Denis Bouanga, AS Saint-Etienne would have claimed € 20 million. At this price, the Phocéens obviously preferred to look elsewhere. The Gabonese, under contract until 2023, is however announced leaving …
