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Discreet since his departure last December, Claude Puel will speak on Sunday during an interview with Europe 1. The opportunity for the former ASSE coach to come back to the reasons for his failure with the Greens.
Regularly announced on the departure after the bad start to the season made by theAS Saint Etienne, Claude Puel experienced the defeat of too many on December 5 against reindeer (5-0) to Geoffroy Guichard. As le10sport.com revealed to you at the time, it is Pascal Dupraz who was chosen by the Saint-Etienne management to succeed the 60-year-old coach. Since then, the latter has been discreet in the media, apart from a dry response addressed to Roland Romeyer on January 7, after the chairman of the management board ofASSE indicated that Claudius Puel had deliberately been inactive in the transfer market during his time between 2019 and 2021. ” When a coach leaves a club, it is tempting to make him bear all the responsibility for a situation “, had replied Claudius Puel through a press release sent to The Team. This Sunday, the former technician of theAS Saint Etienne should nevertheless say more during an interview granted to European 1. The opportunity for him to come back to his failure among the Greens and to point the finger at the financial problems of the Forézien club.
“We couldn’t recruit for four transfer windows”
” I did not expect the club to be in this situation when I arrived. But from there, what was important was simply to give the best, to simply help them get through this situation and get through this stage. “, Explain Claudius Puel, regretting the financial problems of theAS Saint Etienne : “ We were unable to recruit for four transfer windows. Four transfer windows that I had to endure because it was necessary to try to limit the wage bill and create players to try to sell them later, and to have good financial conditions for the future of the club. »
“With my staff, we gave and we did our best trying”
During this interview, some excerpts of which were relayed by World Eleven, Claudius Puel also wished to encourage a great club with great potential for this difficult end to the season ahead. ” With my staff, we gave and we did the maximum trying, with the possibilities we had, to develop some young people from the training center with whom we worked a lot and who, I hope, will allow this club to save themselves and represent financial resources when they need to make up shortfalls », adds Claudius Puel.