With only 12 small points taken in 21 league games, ASSE – AS Saint-Etienne remains dead last in the Ligue 1 standings, five lengths behind FC Lorient (19th) and seven less than FC Metz (18th).
This is why the leaders of Saint-Etienne had chosen to appoint Pascal Dupraz on the bench of the Greens of St Etienne, instead of Claude Puel, in order to carry out his “maintenance operation in L1” as well as possible.
After having already got their hands on Eliaquim Mangala or even Bakary Sako and Joris Gnagnon, while obtaining loans until the end of the season from Paul Bernardoni and Sada Thioub, ASSE has already hit hard on this winter Mercato , but other reinforcements are still expected from the State by the end of January.
In addition to Robert Beric, who should make his big return to AS Saint-Etienne, Pascal Dupraz would like to recruit another striker as well as a new versatile defender, at the end of the winter Mercato. Complicated…
Indeed, if the Jean-Philippe Mateta (Crystal Palace) and Serhou Guirassy (Stade Rennais) tracks have already been abandoned, the Greens of St Etienne should also be able to give up on three other files: Mikael Uhre, Vedat Muriqi and Marcel Tisserand .
Danish international striker Mikael Uhre has just been transferred from Bröndby to Philadelphia Union in MLS, while Vedat Muriqi would have clearly failed ASSE, thus preferring to leave Lazio Rome to return to Turkey at Fenerbahçe where he had been pictured two seasons ago.