While ASSE must communicate this Tuesday, November 23 on the subject AS Saint-Etienne buyback offers studied by the KPMG firm, it would seem that Mathieu Bodmer is no longer part of the project led by Jean-Michel Roussier, former boss of OM, Nancy and the Téléfoot channel. At least this is what Francis Graille confided in the columns of Progress.
“Mathieu Bodmer will not come. They asked him to be a shareholder, but he only wanted a sporting director position. The situation is getting more complicated for Jean-Michel Roussier (…) The only investor who had money, it was the American PEAK6 in 2018. It could have been done, if there had not been two discordant speeches. When you want to buy a club, contacts are made discreetly. And you don’t shout from the rooftops : “it is for sale, it is for sale”. Anyone who wishes to position themselves on such a file, inquires beforehand. The Ravichak affair is improbable “, he declared before slipping a big tackle to the co-owners of ASSE, Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo.
“Football is a clan. There is a pack leader, we join and we follow. There cannot be two crocodiles in the backwater at the same time. The two presidents, they have already made money. and they have been reimbursed for a long time on the club. Especially since they have not invested as much as that. They will never receive the money they ask for. It is ubiquitous their story “
Definitely, this sale of AS Saint-Etienne promises to be very, very complicated …