Claude Puel intends to take advantage of the next winter transfer window to strengthen its workforce. And the ASSE coach plans to draw from PSG.
Claude Puel wants a PSG midfielder
With the Africa Cup of Nations starting soon, AS Saint-Étienne will see a lot of people leave. Indeed, Wahbi Khazri (Tunisia), Denis Bouanga (Gabon), Harold Moukoudi (Cameroon), Yvan Neyou (Cameroon), Saïdou Sow (Guinea), as well as possibly Mahdi Camara (Gambia) are concerned by a possible selection. Engaged in a fight to get out of the red zone and ensure the maintenance of the Stéphane team, Claude Puel wants reinforcement for the second half of the season.
And the ASSE coach would like to convince his Paris Saint-Germain counterpart Mauricio Pochettino to lend him a hand with the help of a midfielder. With a bloated squad, the club in the capital has a problem of group size that it must reduce in order to welcome new faces. Leonardo, the sporting director of the Rouge et Bleu is thus looking for ways out for different players who do not have much playing time. The coach of the current 19th in Ligue 1 wants to take the opportunity to attract one of the promising elements of the championship leader.
ASSE Mercato: Confirmed interest in Dina Ebimbe
Already mentioned last summer, Junior Dina Ebimbe AS Saint-Étienne is still interested. Trained at Paris Saint-Germain, the 20-year-old midfielder plays little this season with stiff competition from Leandro Paredes, Danilo Perreira, Idrissa Gueye, Marco Verratti and Georginio Wijnaldum, the young protégé of Mauricio Pochettino necessarily wants to play more . Established only twice in Ligue 1 this season, “Dina Ebimbe would obviously not be against the idea of leaving PSG during the next Mercato, in order to obtain more playing time”, explains the sports site Le 10 Sport.
While the German channel Sky Sport recently evoked an interest in the versatile midfielder of Bayern Munich, Tanguy Kouassi, the coach of AS Saint-Étienne would like to be loaned another Parisian Titi. Loaned to Dijon last season, the French Under-21 international could leave PSG provisionally in January. It remains to be seen what his coach thinks about this.