The officialization of the takeover of Newcastle by a Saudi sovereign fund on October 7 confirmed a strong trend in European football: the arrival of large fortunes at the head of clubs. Convinced that AS Saint-Étienne must ride this wave, Bernard Caïazzo, majority co-shareholder of ASSE with Roland Romeyer, therefore intends to sell the club to “A billionaire who can put the same money as (the Russian) Rybolovlev in Monaco or (the American) McCourt in Marseille ”.