Monaco, Marseille, Saint-Etienne ... the other hot spots in the transfer window

The winter transfer market opens this Wednesday, January 1 and, as every year, will serve as a catch-up session for bad students, like AS Monaco. Clubs, such as Olympique de Marseille or ASSE, will try to offload a few players. We take stock.

The big blur in Monaco

The Principality club which counts… 73 players under contract, counting the loans, seeks to make them leave a lot. 7th in the standings, the ASM needs to build muscle in defense and in the middle. But the surprise arrival of the new coach, the Spaniard Robert Moreno, can change Monaco's plans. He needs to rely, for his first club experience, on players he knows and that the ASM did not necessarily track before the ouster of Leonardo Jardim.

The OM seeks to make leave a big salary

Marseille, a convincing dolphin of PSG, does not necessarily want to upset the balance found by André Villas-Boas. Especially with the return of French world champion Florian Thauvin long injured in an ankle. The only one Marseille hopes to see leave is the Dutchman Kevin Strootman and his disproportionate salary of 500,000 euros monthly…

Saint-Etienne wants the big laundry

Claude Puel warned the Stéphanois supporters: the green transfer window will not be very offensive in the arrivals department. The technician arrived in early October complained of having 32 players under contract. Which complicates his daily work. Ideally, it requires a dozen starts to have only 23 pros, in particular to help young people progress. Nobody is transferable and even a player like Yann M'Vila could leave in the event of a large foreign offer.