On sale for more than a year, AS Saint-Etienne is desperately unable to find a buyer and the process seems to be at a standstill.
Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo have been hoping for many months for the sale of ASSE to an ambitious buyer. But according to the information obtained by Goal Football Club, the process of selling the Greens is completely stopped? Indeed, since November and two offers made to KPMG and refused, nothing has changed. Candidate for the takeover of the Greens at the end of 2021, Jean-Michel Roussier has definitively abandoned the file. Historical sponsor of the club, Olivier Markarian is still in the race but for the time being, he is not considered a serious candidate for the resumption of ASSE. Serge Bueno, with whom Marakarian has decided not to associate, is also a name that has been coming back for some time.
🆕 Seven new faces, one ambition 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐞.
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– AS Saint-Etienne (@ASSEofficiel) February 1, 2022
But it has been silent since its release at the end of the year. At the time, he explained that his intention was to rally all the forces with the one and only goal that AS Saint-Etienne does not fall into the hands of Russian investors. Precisely, a Russian businessman was mentioned to potentially take over ASSE in the person of Sergei Lomakin, who had attended the match between Saint-Etienne and PSG in November (1-3). The KPMG firm had opened the data room to Sergei Lomakin but two and a half months later, no one in Saint-Etienne has heard from the Russian investor, who flew away into the wild as if by magic. For him as for the other potential candidates, the current results of AS Saint-Etienne are dissuasive. And for good reason, between the price asked by Roland Romeyer and Bernard Caïazzo as well as the real risk of a descent into Ligue 2 at the end of the season, the conditions are not really met for a quick sale of AS Saint-Etienne.