Zapping Goal! Football club ASSE: Laurent Hess’ editorial on the management of Bilal Benkhedim’s hope
The Arlesienne of the year is Mostafa Mohamed
Will come, will not come? ASSE made Mostafa Mohamed its priority last winter. Despite her financial worries, she was ready to pay a € 5m transfer to bring in the Egyptian striker. But following a hallucinating television interview with Roland Romeyer, Zamalek’s board, crumpled, finally preferred to lend its striker to Galatasaray. Rocambolesque!
The gag of the year is the (no) sale of the club
Will sell, not sell? The other soap opera of the year 2021 was that of the sale of the club, or rather of its non-sale. While the Caiazzo-Romeyer duo have been saying since last spring that they want to withdraw before the end of the year, they are still there, against all odds, despite the anger of the supporters. And despite more or less eccentric takeover candidates, between a Cambodian Prince who would be penniless, a former president of OM (Jean-Michel Roussier) a time privileged by the shareholders while he would never have completed his round table, a Russian billionaire (Sergeï Lomakin) came to watch the match against Paris (1-3) before disappearing immediately, and two sponsors of the cub (Olivier Markarian and Serge Bueno) who could unite but who did not really seem to have the favors of the duo …
⚽️ ASSE – EXCLU GOAL! : Norodom Ravichak’s lawyer breaks the silence #Let’s go Green https://t.co/4qnlyNnvTU
– Goal! Saint-Etienne (@ButASSE) November 25, 2021
to summarize
2021 has been a very difficult year for ASSE. And not only on the ground … It was also marked by two soap operas: the real false transfers of Mostafa Mohamed, and the real false sale of the club, still owned by the Caiazzo-Romeyer duo …
