AS Saint-Etienne : Mangala in Saint-Etienne, it’s official | ASSE News

AS Saint-Etienne has formalized the arrival of central defender Eliaquim Mangala. The French international (8 selections) was free. He signed a contract with the Greens until next June. “It’s a source of pride to join a club like AS Saint-Étienne, commented the former Porto and Manchester City player. I take the club’s situation as a challenge. My goal is to help the club get out of this, I know we’ll do it. For that, we also need all the supporters, so I’m counting on them. Physically, I feel good. I’ll be ready very quickly for the goal which is to save the club.”

Fabio Cannavaro, 2006 world champion with Italy, is on the list of contenders to succeed Rafael Benitez at Everton. According to the Daily Mail, there have even already been contacts between the leaders of the Toffees and the former defender.

As predicted, the international hopeful goalkeeper of the HAC, Yahia Fofana, has officially signed up with the SCO of Angers. The 21-year-old Frenchman and current goalkeeper in Le Havre will join Anjou this summer and will therefore finish the year 21-22 in Le Havre. Angers signs a nice blow by enlisting one of the revelations of the season.

Not really in Antonio Conte’s plans at Tottenham, Tanguy Ndombele could take advantage of the winter transfer window to revive. According to our information, PSG have started discussions with Tottenham for a loan or an exchange.

The midfielder wants to come and coach Mauricio Pochettino is a fan of the Frenchman. But Spurs want the Parisians to pay his full salary.

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Discarded by FC Barcelona, ​​Ousmane Dembélé breaks the silence in a long message posted on his Instagram account this Thursday. “As of today, I will respond with sincerity and without giving in to any blackmail,” promises the French winger, who is coming to the end of his contract next summer. “I am not a man who cheats and even less a man who has a habit of giving in to blackmail,” he explains.

“For 4 years, I have only read things said about me without taking the trouble to justify myself. For 4 years, slander is frequent. For 4 years, people speak in my place, they lie shamefully with for only goal, the intention to harm me. For 4 years, I made the choice never to answer, never to justify myself. Was it a mistake? Certainly. As of today, this is over From today, I will answer with sincerity and without giving in to any blackmail. I am 24 years old and like any man, I have faults, imperfections. I have known complex moments, wounds , I was affected by the Covid. Without any training, the coach called on me and I always answered present… without batting an eyelid. Answer present simply as I have always done because it is my passion “, details the former Rennais.

“I forbid anyone to make believe that I am not involved in the sports project. I forbid anyone to lend me intentions that I never had. I forbid anyone to speak in my place, to the place of my agent in whom I have total confidence. Still under contract, I am fully concerned and at the disposal of my club, my coach. I have always given my all for my teammates as well as for the whole supporters and it is not now that it will stop. I am not a man who cheats and even less a man who has a habit of giving in to blackmail. Certainly love is only a variant of blackmail. As you know, there are negotiations. I let my agent take care of it, it’s his field. My field is football, simply playing football, sharing moments of joy with my team-mates, with our supporters. Above all, let’s focus on the essentials: winning.”

ASSE will have Eliaquim Mangala sign a short contract until the end of the season, the player without a club since last summer had already been advised in September to the Greens. The staff in place had not seen fit to strengthen their team with the former Manchester City player. Claude Puel had brushed off the idea even if the player had not, it is true at the time, shown a very significant interest in the Forez club. Four months later, with a 20th place in the key and the 19th defense of Ligue 1, ASSE will therefore engage Mangala who has since maintained vigorously but who will, in fact, be short of competition. Still, at only 30 years old, the French international should bring grit, combativeness and a little confidence to the defense of ASSE.

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Pablo Longoria, president of OM, opens the door to the departure of Alvaro Gonzalez: “We intended to make Sead Kolasinac to anticipate a little, with a player adapting to the game of the coach. We opened exit doors to players. I spoke to Alvaro, we will work together to find solutions.”

The new loan regulations will come into force next summer with a bit of a delay. Fifa issued a press release on Thursday to confirm the development on this point which was initially to apply in 2020. But the global coronavirus pandemic which broke out that year led to its delay.

From July 1, 2022, each club will be able to loan and be loaned a maximum of eight players. The number will then drop in the following two seasons: between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, only seven players per club will be eligible for loan, then six from July 1, 2024. “Players aged 21 or less and club-trained players will not be affected by these limitations.

“At national level, the new text provides for a three-year period for FIFA member associations to set up a loan system in accordance with international regulations,” the statement said.

The text is accompanied by other modifications, in particular on the minimum loan period “corresponding to that between two registration periods (English clubs sometimes make one-month loans, editor’s note), and a maximum duration (one year )”. No more two-year loans between certain teams. Fifa also prohibits “under-lending a professional player to a third party club”.

Finally, it sets a limit on the number of loans between two clubs each season – a club can simultaneously accept a maximum of three professional players on loan from the same club during a season, this restriction also applies to the number of players that a club can loan to the same club”.

Six months from the end of his contract with PSG, the name of Kylian Mbappé is coming back more and more to Real Madrid. Formed in this same club, his former team-mate Pablo Sarabia returned to Marca on their discussion on this subject: “We always joked with him about Real Madrid, but from there there is something more? He never said that.”

PSG announced the loan of their young defender Teddy Alloh (19) to KAS Eupen, Belgium, this Thursday. If he participated in the preparation matches last summer, the player has never played with the pros in Paris where he is linked until 2023.

Agreement reached for a six-month contract for Eliaquim Mangala in Saint-Etienne. The 30-year-old defender is currently undergoing his medical examination. The player had been free since leaving Valencia at the end of last season.

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Mateu Alemany, in charge of Barça’s sports management, assumes the decision to dismiss Ousmane Dembélé, in a video published on the club’s social networks: “With Ousmane, with his agents, we started discussions in July. We have spoken for six or seven months, Barça made several offers for the player to stay with us, offers which were refused by his agents. It is January 20 and it seems obvious to us that the player does not count on Barça and is not involved in Barça’s sporting project. In this situation, we have communicated to the player and his agents that he must leave immediately. The sporting consequence of all this, agreed with the technical staff and the coach , it’s that we don’t want to have players with us who aren’t involved in our project and who don’t want to be at Barça, and therefore don’t want to call him up again, as a result of everything we’ve talked about. who decides in the end is the coach and he has all our help.”

As announced by the Catalan press on Wednesday, Ousmane Dembélé (24) is not in the Barça group for the trip to the field of Athletic Bilbao, this Thursday in the round of 16 of the King’s Cup. An absence as a sanction for the situation of the French, who has still not extended his contract with the Catalan club.

According to the Daily Mail, Newcastle are now targeting Bayer Leverkusen left-back Mitchel Bakker (21). The Dutchman left PSG last summer for 10 million euros after spending two seasons there. He had been used a lot last season (40 games) before his departure for Germany where he played 15 games.

According to the English media, the Magpies are preparing to make an offer of 17 million euros to recruit the defender, represented by Mino Raiola.

As announced by Le Parisien and confirmed by RMC Sport on Wednesday, Wilson Isidor is close to Lokomotiv Moscow.

The young (21) AS Monaco striker, author of only one goal in 12 appearances this season, will be the subject of a transfer estimated at three million euros.

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Xavi was very clear with Ousmane Dembélé during his visit to the press conference before Barça’s match in Bilbao in the King’s Cup. The Blaugrana coach left the Frenchman with two options: either he extends or he leaves.

According to the Catalan press, the technician will quickly put his money where his mouth is and could well dismiss the tricolor world champion from his group for the trip to the Athletic field this Thursday evening. one more twist in the Dembouz soap opera.

Arsène Wenger recognizes that taking up a bench tickles him all the time but does not think of diving back, in an interview with Le Parisien. In particular, he sweeps away the idea of ​​becoming a PSG coach, as he had done in December in “Rothen ignites” on RMC.

“It tickles me all the time, he confides. We are never completely cured. We are addicted all our life.” Is he considering going back? “I don’t think so, no…I hope I have enough wisdom not to fall back.”

The DNCG has approved the arrivals and signings of Cédric Bakambu and Sead Kolasinac, the first two Olympian recruits of the winter transfer window.

The OM payroll being monitored, the procedure for contract approvals can be a little longer. Reason why Bakambu was not qualified for the match against Lille (1-1). They are now qualified.

The two men are training with OM and they are even applying for a place in the group on Saturday, in Lens (9 p.m.). Especially the Congolese striker who arrived in Marseille several days ago.

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Expected but not yet official, the transfer of Dario Benedetto to Boca juniors is no longer in doubt. As announced by RMC Sport, the Argentinian striker will leave Elche, where he has been on loan from OM since the start of the season, to return to South America. “Pipa” himself confirmed this to a Spanish radio station.

“I said I would come back to Boca Juniors one way or another and I have already kept my word, Dario Benedetto told Onda Cero Elche radio. I will always be a fan of this club and now I was given the opportunity to come back as a player at the club I love.”

The future of several stars of the football planet still raises so many questions a few months before the end of their contract. Free next June, Kylian Mbappé has still not extended to PSG but in Spain we strongly believe in his signing at Real Madrid. On the side of Catalonia, Ousmane Dembélé continues to weigh the pros and cons of an extension at Barça.

Pending the resolution of the Pape Gueye case with Fifa, OM have managed to approve the contracts of their two winter recruits: Cédric Bakambu and Sead Kolasinac. Good news for Jorge Sampaoli.