Red lantern in Ligue 1 mid-season, AS Saint-Etienne will have to achieve a much more convincing return phase. For his part, former Stéphanois Patrick Guillou has little hope given the contractual situation of many players.
For AS Saint-Etienne, the first part of the season was disastrous. The Greens have recorded just two victories in 19 Ligue 1 matches. And remain on five consecutive defeats that explain their status as a red lantern, four points behind play-off Metz. Suffice to say that Pascal Dupraz’s men will have to make an excellent return phase to avoid relegation to Ligue 2 at the end of the year. But for his part, the former Stéphanois Patrick Guillou shows his pessimism. In question, the ten players at the end of the contract who, according to him, will not always give their all.
Will players soon be less involved?
” You have a multitude of players who are at the end of the contract, and it will be expensive in the second part of the season, warned the consultant on the YouTube channel Carton Rouge TV. When you have so many players at the end of your contract who will have to move to save your club, but behind them they say “and if I get hurt, because I signed elsewhere …” We have already seen that. Those who love football know that history is a constant beginning. We will not be different from the others. “This is why Patrick Guillou is hoping for a relevant recruitment.
” If we don’t pay attention to the squad set up for the second half of the season, this is exactly what will happen., he insisted. And it’s the same when you have a coach at the end of your contract. You tell yourself that Dupraz is here for a six-month mission, if anything turns upside down … As a reminder, Stefan Bajic, Timothée Kolodziejczak, Alpha Sissoko, Miguel Trauco, Assane Dioussé, Ryad Boudebouz, Romain Hamouma, Arnaud Nordin and Wahbi Khazri are linked to ASSE until next June. Not to mention the end of forward Ignacio Ramirez’s loan.