The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette
The terraces8 Jan 2029
Supporters organise against the AS Saint-Etienne board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Market8 Jan 2029
LB Chateauroux come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AS Saint-Etienne did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market8 Jan 2029
OGC Nice watching Mojmír Chytil
The interest is real enough to have reached print. AS Saint-Etienne have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market8 Jan 2029
Beres Owusu asks to leave AS Saint-Etienne
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
The paperwork begins on Mathis Amougou
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. AS Saint-Etienne have done the hard part with RC Strasbourg, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Tempers go at AS Saint-Etienne
Zuriko Davitashvili was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad8 Jan 2029
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.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
Ilan Jourdren will join AS Saint-Etienne for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Ilan Jourdren has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means AS Saint-Etienne have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets8 Jan 2029
AS Saint-Etienne rebuffed over Yasser Larouci
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ESTAC Troyes have kept their man, and AS Saint-Etienne go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Pierre Ekwah
- Player ratings Mojmír Chytil runs at them all day
- Squad Jérôme Arnaud out for 33 days