Even if Julien Sablé has been appointed to act as interim after the sidelining of Claude Puel, AS Saint-Étienne hopes to have his new coach for next Saturday’s trip to Reims.
ASSE tried until the last moment to delay the deadline, but Sunday, after the rout against Rennes, Roland Romeyer, present at Geoffroy-Guichard, and Bernard Caïazzo, with subscribers absent for months, decided that this time We had to do something. And it was Claude Puel who paid the price, the departure of the coach having been demanded for months, as well as that of the two presidents. Obviously, AS Saint-Étienne must finalize the departure of Puel, and that has a financial cost which is necessarily a concern for a club in the red. In order to be able to ensure training from this Tuesday in the perspective of next Saturday’s trip to Reims, it is Julien Sablé who has been appointed to take over the interim, but the latter should not drag on in this function that he already occupied in 2017 after the dismissal of Oscar Garcia. According to Bernard Lions, the goal of Jean-François Soucasse, executive chairman of the Greens, is to appoint the new coach even before the trip to Delaune.
A coach without an assistant and with a small salary, ASSE sets the rules
On Sunday night, Pascal Dupraz seemed the big favorite to succeed Claude Puel, but the tide would have turned for the one who was fired at the start of the year by Caen. Dupraz is said to have told his entourage that he was much less “optimistic” about his coming to the Stéphane bench. According to the journalist from L’Equipe, the name of Frédéric Hantz is coming back more and more. Currently free, the 55-year-old coach could urgently arrive at Etrat to engage with AS Saint-Étienne, even if again nothing has been done for the moment, in an attempt to save the place of ASSE in Ligue 1. All this by accepting a minimum wage, but a bonus if the objective is reached, and by coming alone and without an assistant. Sacred challenge that Hantz is ready to accept.