Fired by AS Saint-Étienne last month, Claude Puel imagined a completely different end to his adventure with the Greens. The 60-year-old coach believes that he has also limited the damage with so many departures (Saliba, Fofana) and so few arrivals.
“I didn’t 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. 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 “, he confided in European 1.