Widely contested in recent weeks, Claude Puel made an initial assessment of the Saint-tienne season. The coach of the Greens spoke of the difficulty of the Forzien club to renew its model while the threat of a disappearance loomed.
Puel does not give up with the Greens.
Claude Puel has very strong leather. Contested, even threatened, by some of the supporters, the 60-year-old coach remains hanging on to his Saint-tienne post despite the catastrophic start of the season. A rat start from the Greens, who point in 19th position in Ligue 1, to which the main interested returned.
Puel expects more
Our place in the ranking is not in line with what we expect from ASSE. We owe it to ourselves to correct this, it will be a long road. Our goal until the end of the season must be shared by everyone. There is the posture that determines a lot of things , warned the former Monaco coach for RMC. He admits that he did not choose the easy way by agreeing to join ASSE. Since my arrival, we have to face a lot of things. The sporting aspect is closely linked to the economic aspects. It is for that that I say that Saint-tienne is the crossroads, one left on a renewal of model.
The club could have disappeared according to Puel
For Puel, obtaining good results with the current model is not easy due to the instability of the workforce. Saint-tienne was heavily in debt and was poorly classified when I arrived in October 2019, with no possibility of renewing itself and without assets to ensure the salaries given. It was an obligation to open the door to certain young people, to train them and to create what are called assets in order to be able to sell them in case of need and fill in the gaps. This is what we did with the sale of Wesley Fofana (Leicester) from the first year , continued the Castres.
According to him, it is difficult to realize the real situation of the club from an outside point of view. We tried every transfer window to reduce the club’s payroll. It was the emergency beyond the athlete. There were choices to be made between trying to manage the players as well as possible and finishing the season economically. There was a great urgency. We were talking about the possibility of a disappearance of the club during the first year , revealed the champion of France 2000.
Puel remains ambitious
After having obtained his first success of the season against Clermont (3-2), Puel hopes that his protections will succeed. The TOP 10? You have to set goals. We finished 11th place last season despite a series of losses. You always have to be ambitious. A bad start to the season is not a reason to be in the dark. We want to save the club, to maintain ourselves. But we also want to stay ambitious , ended Puel. See you this Sunday in Troyes to give yourself a little more air.
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