AS Saint-Etienne : Ligue 1. “If the guys give up, there will be a disaster at the end of the season…”: Kévin Monnet-Paquet judges ASSE | ASSE News

Left free last summer by Saint-Etienne, Kévin Monnet-Paquet left to join the Cypriot championship and Aris Limassol. After a start complicated by an injury, the Isérois is starting to find his mark. “I arrived here at the end of August so I didn’t have a lot of physical preparation. I injured my adductors quickly when I arrived, which slowed me down a lot in my adaptation and my integration into the team, he told the site In green and against all. I dragged a little pain for quite a long time but now it’s been better for a few weeks and I feel in good shape.

From his island, he obviously follows the results of the Greens, with a hint of concern about the situation of his former club. “It pains me to see AS Saint-Étienne in last place. But there is still half a season left. The statistics are not in our favor but we must not give up because if the guys give up there will be a disaster at the end of the season. You have to hang on. With the arrival of the new coach, perhaps listening to new instructions, adopting new work attitudes, it will perhaps go better in the minds to allow the club to save itself, “hopes the 33-year-old striker. Also with a boost from the transfer window. “We have to try something with new players who arrive mentally fresh, who have not experienced this difficult half-season to help the team get out of there”.

If the rumors of sale are not for him one of the causes of this delicate situation, Monnet-Paquet recognizes that the differences between the two presidents of the club Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo can complicate the deal. “Normally, the top of the pyramid should give direction. When you play and you feel that upstairs it is not serene, often it is transcribed downstairs. So it is true that it is not easy when you feel that there is turbulence in the direction.

In any case, the Berjallien does not regret having left Saint-Etienne and he will certainly not return. “Honestly, I think I’ve had my day at ASSE. I spent seven years in Saint-Étienne. The last few seasons have been complicated, especially the white season that I had to spend because of my crosses. I came back I relapsed. When I really came back, I didn’t play much with Claude Puel. You feel that this is the end of the story (…) The last year I did not evolve at my top level but I needed time. I needed more confidence than I was given, that’s how football is. I think it was time to turn the page.”

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