ASSE – AS Saint-Etienne, which is preparing to host RC Lens this Saturday at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard on behalf of the 21st day of Ligue 1, has especially its eyes firmly on this winter Mercato, where Pascal Dupraz and the managers of Saint-Etienne intend to do good business in order to considerably strengthen the workforce of the Greens, in all areas of the game.
Especially since five ASSE players are currently playing in the CAN (African Cup of Nations): Wahbi Khazri, Denis Bouanga, Yvan Neyou, Harold Moukoudi and Saïdou Sow.
But 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), the Forez club, which has chosen to appoint Pascal Dupraz on his bench instead of Claude Puel, has already suffered several refusals, in particular with Youcef Belaïli and Sébastien Corchia, and is also struggling to materialize his hot files, such as those of Zinedine Ferhat (Nîmes Olympique) or Jean-Philippe Mateta ( Crystal Palace).
And according to the latest news, ASSE would have abandoned the track leading to Zinedine Ferhat (28), whose contract will expire next June with Nîmes Olympique. The Algerian international, already followed very closely by Celtic Glasgow, would be Trabzonspor’s priority in this winter Mercato and the leaders of the Turkish club have already started discussions with their Nîmes counterparts in order to be able to complete this transfer.
Needless to say that it will be very complicated, not to say impossible, for AS Saint-Etienne to be able to compete with Trabzonspor for Zinedine Ferhat … Too bad for Pascal Dupraz, who greatly appreciates the profile of the attacking midfielder of Nîmes Olympique !
=> The Mateta track is complicated, many absent on the Stéphanois side for the reception of RC Lens in Ligue 1 at the Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium, Claude Puel responded to the attacks, Belaïli and Corchia fail the Greens … follow all the latest news and rumors transfers by clicking here: ASSE Mercato!