ASSE captain until his departure in May 2021, Mathieu Debuchy gave his opinion on the Greens’ season. He wants to be optimistic and especially points to summer as the cause of the Saint-Etienne problems.
Mathieu Debuchy knows the AS Saint-Étienne locker room well. Indeed, he surveyed it for more than three years with nearly a hundred appearances in the green jersey, the stress of maintenance or a contested French Cup final. Party this summer for Valenciennes, the one who wore the captain’s armband at the time of his departure was keen to decipher the very difficult start to the season for his former club. The former ASSE full-back was invited to a video interview with our colleagues at Sainté Inside.
Weak financial means at ASSE
For him, the Saint-Etienne offseason was not well managed. ” When you start a new season you start from scratch so you hope it goes well so they weren’t necessarily expecting it. Now the offseason has been tricky too, a lot of noise around the team, the club. These are not conditions that are serene for a good start to the championship once again. Financial means which are zero in fact, you lose players, you recruit no one. Yeah that’s not the best way to approach the Ligue 1 championship, that’s for sure. », He confided.
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A Saint-Etienne team that would therefore be weakened and rejuvenated, especially since the facelift caused by the arrival of Claude Puel at the head of the Greens in 2019. A team too weak to save its skin in Ligue 1? Mathieu Debuchy knows this team and its quality, asking the supporters for patience. ” Afterwards, it’s true that it’s hard to explain because you have quality in this team, you have a lot of quality, you have players with a lot of potential but you see that the mayonnaise does not take. “, he added. A mayonnaise that should take quickly. With 6 points, no success after 12 matches, and a last place in the standings, the Saint-Etienne season is turning more sour than anything else.