Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: tops, flops, future … the assessment of the 2020-2021 season of the Greens
Stefan BAJIC and Miguel TRAUCO
“Even if Etienne Green wins in Saint-Etienne goals, I think it would be a shame to let Stefan Bajic go. The young porter had been very good during the victorious campaign in Gambardella two years ago, he is international and he is a real Saint Etienne! The club could bite their fingers if they were to confirm their potential elsewhere. I would also find it a shame to see Arnaud Nordin, another international trained in the good grain of L’Etrat, leave for free at the end of the season. It would even be an aberration, and this even if the small attacker does not progress particularly for some time. But the other player I want to mention is Miguel Trauco. The Peruvian is coming out of a good season. After a first year of adaptation, he had given satisfaction. I like its grinta, its technical qualities. I think he’s a good player, who has progressed defensively by taking the measure of L1. And as in addition he is far from being one of the big salaries of the workforce, I admit having a little trouble understanding why the club is extending reservists like Marvin Tshibuabua or Edmilson Correia, rather than him … “
Laurent HESS
Arnaud NORDIN
Even if Arnaud Nordin lacks statistics for an offensive (12 goals, 6 assists in 110 matches with ASSE) and is only seen as a luxury joker by Claude Puel, I believe that let the native of Paris go free would be a mistake. Especially in relation to the current policy of promoting training and developing young people. Because Nordin is precisely an example of “valuing” a promise from the training center, a regular member of the first team.
Unlike Wahbi Khazri, Ryad Boudebouz or Timothée Kolodziejczak, the 23-year-old winger does not weigh heavily in the payroll. Of course, to keep it and ward off French (Strasbourg) and foreign (Bundesliga) competition, it will be necessary to be a little more generous than at present. But I can hardly believe that a new Nordin contract exceeds the Salary Cap of 100,000 € gross per month.
In addition, for the image and after the fiasco Jonathan Bamba, while the ASSE leaves and currency more defensive profiles, the departure of a child of the Etrat would be bad style. Further proof that Saint-Etienne is not the right club to showcase and exit offensives. Since Bafétimbi Gomis, sold for 15 M € in Lyon in 2009, how many young strikers from Saint-Etienne have been sold well? Little … Even the very talented Allan Saint-Maximin was sold off for € 5 million. I don’t know if Arnaud Nordin will be worth more one day, but what I’m sure is that ASSE will get more than a few meager training compensation by extending his contract.
Alexandre CORBOZ
The debate on the end of contract at ASSE
The debate of the week, between Laurent Hess and Alexandre Corboz, concerns the end of contract at ASSE. If you only had to extend one (or two) player (s) at the end of the contract in 2022, who would you choose? To each his answer and his arguments …
