After completing the Eliaquim Mangala file, who signed Thursday for six months, Saint-Etienne hopes to recruit a striker in the winter transfer window.
Sako, Thioub, Bernardoni, Gnagnon, Mangala… and soon a striker? ASSE hopes to continue its transfer window with the recruitment of a luxury offensive joker in the coming days. For several weeks, the Forézien club has been negotiating the loan of Jean-Philippe Mateta from Crystal Palace, but the file of the former OL and Le Havre striker is at a standstill. The Serhou Guirassy track was also dug. But at a time when Rennes is still in contention in the Conference League and in the race for the podium, the Breton club has vetoed the departure of the former Amiénois. Saint-Etienne has thus activated two new offensive tracks, according to information obtained by Le Progrès.
Muriqi and Kara targeted by Saint-Etienne
✍️ 𝗕𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 @Elia22Mangala 💚
The experienced centre-back joins the#ASSE until the end of the season 👇
– AS Saint-Etienne (@ASSEofficiel) January 20, 2022
Lazio Rome’s flagship recruit in September 2020, Kosovar striker Vedat Muriqi is one of the players targeted by Saint-Etienne. Bought for the tidy sum of 20 million euros for the Roman club a year and a half ago, the player has a starving record of 2 goals in 49 games in the Italian jersey and Saint-Etienne would see a very good eye the possibility of relaunching him on loan. Another slightly sexier track is on the table for the Greens, that of Austrian striker Ercan Kara. For once, he is – unlike Muriqi – a player in full confidence since he has already scored 14 goals this season in the jersey of Rapid Vienna. But Ercan Kara will be out of contract at the end of the season, which represents a boon for ASSE to get their hands on a scorer in great shape for zero euros. The competition nevertheless risks posing a problem for Saint-Etienne who, it must be said, does not have many arguments to put forward between a delicate financial situation and a catastrophic position in the standings with a real risk of relegation to Ligue 2. …