The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette
Match24 May 2027
AS Saint-Etienne are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 60 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad24 May 2027
Zuriko Davitashvili honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. AS Saint-Etienne had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market24 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Nadir El Jamali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Nadir El Jamali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AS Saint-Etienne the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 May 2027
The step up is real for Paul Eymard
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad24 May 2027
The golden glove goes to Gautier Larsonneur
18 clean sheets across a season, and the one award on the pitch nobody else is eligible for. Most keepers get through a whole career without a year like it.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at AS Saint-Etienne training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mahmoud Jaber is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market24 May 2027
AS Saint-Etienne promote Raymond Renault from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Raymond Renault has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 May 2027
One of our own: Paul Durand joins the AS Saint-Etienne first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paul Durand is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 May 2027
Frédéric Lemaire steps up from the AS Saint-Etienne academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Frédéric Lemaire has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- The dugout Aïmen Moueffek gets it from the manager
- The dugout Karim Cissé has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager makes Dennis Appiah a promise