The only rookie in the summer transfer window for AS Saint-Etienne, Uruguayan striker Ignacio Ramirez is struggling to win unanimous support for the moment …
If Saint-Etienne is having a rather peaceful international break, thanks to the good draw in the derby against OL on October 3 (1-1), ASSE still remains in crisis. Still last in Ligue 1, with zero wins since the start of the season, Claude Puel’s side are clearly in the dark. Lacking talent in both surfaces, the Forez club can not really count on a decisive center forward. Since Ignacio Ramirez, who arrived in the final hours of the summer transfer window from Uruguay, has not yet responded. With 107 minutes of play on the clock and zero goals, the 24-year-old actually had a complicated start to Saint-Etienne. Nothing to reassure Denis Balbir.
“Ramirez can always make us lie…”
“You do not move easily from one continent to another without any adaptation. Obviously, it’s difficult. Despite everything, his short playing time seems illogical to me: either we take someone to bring something quickly, or we do not bring in anyone. Today, when we think of Ignacio Ramirez, we are in question. It’s hard to make a player feel confident without lining them up. If he’s not aligned, there are good reasons. If there is a good reason, it’s because the feedback is negative about it. In that case, why did you take it? Why is Ignacio Ramirez in Saint-Etienne? It’s always a big danger to catch someone in the dying seconds of the transfer window. Especially without having supervised him. Above all, on the attacker’s record, there was a real lack of anticipation. The excuse of finances, I can hear it, but no one comes to tell me today that by thinking upstream it was not possible to be loaned a striker who knows Ligue 1. Ignacio Ramirez, it was a huge bet and for the moment, it seems above all too risky to see missed. Now there are still quite a few games left and Ramirez can still make us lie… ”, said the consultant of But FC, who wonders why ASSE did not rush on M’Baye Niang, who has left for Bordeaux in recent weeks.