Fired from ASSE last January for “serious misconduct”, Stéphane Ruffier is suing his former club. He claims damages for having been unfairly dismissed, according to him, six months after the end of his contract.
ASSE would have planned 2 M €, Ruffier would require 5 M €
The ASSE file – Stephane Ruffier is still not closed, even though the goalkeeper left the Loire club in January 2021, with six months left in his contract. The 35-year-old doorman has indeed brought the Saint-Etienne management before the industrial tribunal. According to information from The team, the dispute will be judged at the beginning of the year in 2022. The source also understands that Stéphane Ruffier is claiming the amount of € 5 million (6 months salary and compensation included). Dismissed by AS Saint-Étienne for “serious misconduct”, he obviously challenges the decision of his former leaders.
“The Basque should plead in particular a loss of professional opportunity and claim up to € 5 million. A sum below what ASSE would have expected. The Saint-Etienne club would have provisioned only € 2 million. This corresponds schematically to the money that Stéphane Ruffier should have touched, if he had gone to the end of his contract (in June 2021), ”explained the sports daily.
The verdict of the litigation known in 2023?
According to the media’s indiscretions, “the procedure promises to be long, a final conviction of the club – if there is a conviction – should not come before 2023”. Stéphane Ruffier defended Stéphanoise’s colors for 9 consecutive seasons between 2011 and 2020. Arrival from theAS Monaco in the summer of 2011, he was the No. 1 goalkeeper until February 2020 and was sidelined by Claude Puel, in favor of Jessy Moulin, his eternal understudy. The native of Bayonne has totaled 383 matches in all competitions under the jersey of the Greens.