The AS Saint-Etienne Gazette
Match15 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Clermont Foot as AS Saint-Etienne pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. AS Saint-Etienne scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market17 Aug 2026
AS Saint-Etienne spend $9.4M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $9.4M has been paid because Ilan Kebbal is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Lucas Stassin at 21 — 7.72
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Lucas Stassin did not need any: 7.72, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at AS Saint-Etienne
Julien Le Cardinal 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Samuel Loric would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Samuel Loric is living that version at AS Saint-Etienne, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market17 Aug 2026
Le Puy Foot 43 watching Joshua Duffus
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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
AS Saint-Etienne spend $9.4M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $9.4M for Ilan Kebbal, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Lucas Stassin
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match AS Saint-Etienne see off Clermont Foot
- Squad No place for Ilan Kebbal in the new shape
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mickaël Nadé