The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ilan Kebbal due for a AS Saint-Etienne medical
Everything agreed with Paris FC, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market10 Aug 2026
AS Saint-Etienne say no — this time
The offer from Olympique de Marseille for Irvin Cardona was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Steven Berghuis turns down AS Saint-Etienne
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ajax keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mahmoud Jaber stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mahmoud Jaber and AS Saint-Etienne agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at AS Saint-Etienne
Irvin Cardona and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Zuriko Davitashvili beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at AS Saint-Etienne training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julien Le Cardinal 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Marten-Chris Paalberg attracts admirers
The name of Marten-Chris Paalberg has come up in conversations AS Saint-Etienne were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Gautier Larsonneur
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Louis Paris joins the AS Saint-Etienne first team
- Market Marc Benoit steps up from the AS Saint-Etienne academy
- Squad The formation has left Marius Noubissi behind