After Mangala, ASSE is now waiting for the striker requested by Dupraz. Tracks Mateta and Guirassy are not closed according to Samuel Rustem.
ASSE Mercato: The Mateta and Guirassy files are not closed
ASSE officially recruited a fifth reinforcement player on Thursday. This is the tricolor defender (8 selections), Eliaquim Mangala. In his remarks at a press conference, Pascal Dupraz insisted on the arrival of a goalscorer in his team before the closing of the transfer market. This Friday, Samuel Rustem, general manager of AS Saint-Étienne, answered the call of the coach of the Greens. Contrary to the end clap announced on the tracks Jean-Philippe Mateta and Serhou Guirassy, the leader ensures that the two center forwards are still in the club’s plans.
“Mateta, Guirassy? We continue to work. We will see what will happen in the next few days.”, he replied in an interview on France Blue. “We have the means to try to implement the best possible strategy in the collective interest. We give the max to get there, ”reassured Samuel Rustem.
It should be noted that ASSE is requesting the striker from Crystal Palace and that of Stade Rennais, in the form of a loan for six months, i.e. until the end of the season. Mateta and Guirassy play little in their respective clubs, and the direction of the Stéphanois wishes to attract one of the two players to Geoffroy-Guichard in order to help the Greens to remain in Ligue 1, but also to allow them to revive.
“We had resources available from the shareholders”
Speaking of financial means, the DG of ASSE confirmed funds released by the owners of the Loire club for the winter market. “On the transfer window, we worked a lot with Jean-François Soucasse (executive president) and Loïc Perrin (sports coordinator). We also had the means available from the shareholders, which today allows us to position ourselves with ambition so that the objective can be achieved, that the team is competitive and that maintenance is obtained., he said.