The winter transfer window was hot on the side of AS Saint-Etienne, the Greens being launched in a big battle to stay in Ligue 1. But some signings surprised.
Arrived in Saint-Etienne some time ago, Joris Gnagnon officially joined ASSE on January 21, where the former Rennes central defender, free since his dismissal in September by Sevilla FC, will wear number 23 until at the end of the season. For Pascal Dupraz, this is one more choice on the defensive level, even if in Le Parisien we paint a vitriolic portrait of this recruitment of Joris Gnagnon. Indeed, the latter would have arrived out of shape at the Greens and not just a little, since the media affirms that when passing the scales in front of the medical staff of Sainté, it turned out that he was close 20 kilos overweight compared to his ideal weight. A situation which would have even led to a misunderstanding in the locker room of Geffroy-Guichard when the central defender came to settle with his new teammates.
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A Saint-Etienne player, quoted by the daily, even made this funny remark: “ When I saw him in the locker room, I thought he was a security guy “. A tragicomic remark, even if fortunately Joris Ggagnon has seriously recovered in mode “ professional footballer “, dropping pounds, but not yet to the point of being in the best shape of his career and claiming a starting place in Ligue 1. Faced with the fait accompli, Pascal Dupraz still pushed Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo has turned to the transfer window to recruit another central defender in the person of Eliaquim Mangala, who is very sharp and can withstand the shock until the end of the season.