In short pants under the freezing cold of Forez at the time of the photo with his trainer Pascal Dupraz and ASSE sports coordinator Loïc Perrin, Eliaquim Mangala, visibly unmoved by the temperature difference with Florida where he was talking there little, did not take long to warm up, with great optimism, the press room of the State, Friday. On the occasion of his presentation, a week after his signing for six months in Saint-Etienne, Dupraz even turned into a doorman by holding the door for journalists as they entered.