In great difficulty in Ligue 1 over this first half of the season, ASSE – AS Saint-Etienne, who had chosen to appoint Pascal Dupraz on his bench in place of Claude Puel, intends to take advantage of this winter Mercato to strengthen considerably in all areas of play.
If the Greens of St Etienne have already got their hands on Joris Gnagnon and Bakary Sako, while obtaining the loans of two players from Angers SCO (Paul Bernardoni and Sada Thioub), ASSE has also sought a new point attacker in this transfer market.
But big blow for the Greens of AS Saint-Etienne: if Pascal Dupraz ticked the name of Jean-Philippe Mateta (24 years old), our colleagues from Goal.com revealed that the leaders of Crystal Palace were not no longer also certain of wanting to separate from their French striker during this Winter Mercato.
Scorer against Milwall in the FA Cup this Saturday, Jean-Philippe Mateta could therefore finally be selected by Crystal Palace, to the chagrin of ASSE Pascal Dupraz …