Short of playing time at OM, Steve Mandanda would be targeted by ASSE this winter. A serious business for the Saint-Etienne club?
Steve Mandanda to Saint-Étienne?
Also mentioned on Friday night in “Greg’s Team” on the L’Équipe channel, with rumor sending Steve mandanda at AS Saint-Étienne has been gaining momentum over the past few days. It must be said that with the serious injury of Etienne Green, who will see a six-week layoff, ASSE managers are looking for an experienced goalkeeper for the second half of the season.
Pushed onto the substitutes’ bench at Olympique Marseille by Pau Lopez, Mandanda would be in the crosshairs of Pascal Dupraz, the new coach of the Greens. Despite the qualities recognized at Étienne Green, Claude Puel’s successor believes that an experienced goalkeeper is essential for the Loire team to hope to stay in Ligue 1 at the end of the season. At 36, the 2018 World Champion has the perfect profile to help the residents of Geoffroy-Guichard extricate themselves from the relegation zone. But according to the latest news, the case would be too complicated for ASSE to do.
OM Mercato: Mandanda at ASSE, end of the fire
One of the most astonishing transfers of the transfer window will ultimately not come in January between ASSE and OM. The six month loan Steve mandanda from Olympique de Marseille to AS Saint-Étienne would simply be an impossible task. Indeed, according to the revelations of the specialized portal EVECT, the Saint-Etienne club would be unable to financially support the French international from Marseille.
The sports media explains that apart from Mandanda’s salary, which does not come within the nails of the Salary Cap instituted in Saint-Étienne, the Marseille doorman could also constitute a brake on the explosion of the young Étienne Green, which proves to 21 years that he has the makings to be the worthy successor of Stéphane Ruffier. Pascal Dupraz should therefore direct his gaze to other targets to find the rare bird during the winter.