Zapping Goal! Football club AS Saint-Etienne newspaper: Can we believe in better days?
According to our information, in January 2020, Ali Almoez (25), the Qatar striker, who had just been crowned top scorer (9 goals) in the 2019 Asian Cup won by his team, had been offered to ASSE. But Claude Puel, who had just pushed Robert Beric to the exit, in Chicago, for 1 M €, had refused. It was a two-year loan. Qatar wanted their star to harden up in Europe before the next World Cup. The Stéphanois leaders saw the operation in a positive light, especially as sponsors were to accompany the player.
But Puel had considered that it was not interesting to promote an element that would not have belonged to the club, favoring the emergence of Charles Abi … who plays the substitutes today at Guingamp (L2), where he has been on loan since this summer. By scoring 3 goals, Almoez has just shone at the 2021 Arab Cup organized by FIFA in Qatar, 3rd in the competition won by Algeria.
Almoez Ali has now scored in four continents 🌍 @Moezali_ 🤩 pic.twitter.com/53fGiu2MgE
– Qatar Football Association (@QFA_EN) November 14, 2021
to summarize
During his time at ASSE, Claude Puel refused several attackers, to the chagrin of his leaders … In particular Ali Almoez, the Qatari international, who had been proposed just two years ago to the Forézien club. .
