Mathieu WARNIER, Media365: published on Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 3:35 p.m.
Ten months after his dismissal, Stéphane Ruffier will find the leaders of Saint-Etienne before the Labor Council, before which the former international goalkeeper intends to seek several million euros in compensation.
The story between Stéphane Ruffier and AS Saint-Etienne is far from over. Sidelined by Claude Puel at the start of 2020, the international goalkeeper (3 selections) finally saw his contract be broken by the leaders of the Greens on January 4 at the end of a “disciplinary procedure” . A decision that the Forez club assured that it was “made inevitable by the attitude of the player who undermined the institution”. However, the player who wore the ASSE jersey 383 times had not said his last word and challenged this decision, made following a conciliation with the services of the LFP which had not been crowned. of success. The conflict between the club and its former goalkeeper has recently worsened because, according to daily information The team, Stéphane Ruffier’s lawyer, Me Dorothée Bisaccia-Bernstein, filed a case before the Labor Court in order to obtain compensation for his client.
Ruffier and ASSE not fixed before 2023?
The goalkeeper, who announced the end of his professional career following his dismissal by ASSE and now takes care of the goalkeepers of the youth teams of the football section of Aviron Bayonnais, could ask for up to five million euros to his former club. For this, Stéphane Ruffier and his lawyer could highlight a loss of professional luck. For its part, the Saint-Etienne club have already prepared an envelope of two million euros to settle this case, based on the emoluments that his former player should have received if he had gone to the end of his contract, which ended at the end of June 2021. However, this case may not be judged for several months and a verdict rendered within more than a year. Indeed, faced with the multiplication of cases, the legal procedure could not advance before the beginning of the year 2022 then conclude only in 2023. A conflict which is only one of two that Jean-François Soucasse, Director General of ASSE, currently has to manage.