Out the old ones!
Those who have retired (Loïc Perrin) or those pushed towards the exit (like Yann M'Vila), Claude Puel, the Stéphanois coach, is betting on the youth for this new season with ASSE.
With a clear leitmotif.
Last Sunday, in Nantes (2-2), it was a very young green eleven who finished the meeting and took the lead in Ligue 1.
Who are these new little Greens?
Behind Wesley Fofana (19 years), Charles Abi (20 years), Adil Aouchiche (18 years) and Zaydou Youssouf (21 years), rather already known, they are several to be able to hope to play regularly this season with ASSE.
We make the presentations.
Yvann Maçon, 21 years old.
It's THE good surprise at the start of the season.
Decisive passer in Marseille (2-0), author of a sublime goal in Nantes (2-2), Mason was enlisted in Dunkirk, in National 1, for 350,000 euros only in January 2020. A very good move for a midfielder relay at the base and left side since the start of the season in Ligue 1. He has both feet and it is rumored that Puel could make him play right back also this season.
In short, he is counting on him a lot.
It is versatile.
We will see him again.
Yvan Neyou, 23 years old.
After the good surprise, the transfer window jackpot.
The super hit of the summer.
Loaned this summer to the Greens with an option to buy, he played in reserve in Braga in Portugal.
A slightly bumpy course.
He notably went through the INF Clairefontaine with the Nkunku generation.
And since the start of the season, he's been excellent.
In line with his thunderous entry against PSG in the final of the Coupe de France (0-1) at the end of July.
Very good technically, a lot of activity, maybe a bit fragile.
Puel adores him.
Mahdi Camara, 22 years old.
In the ASSE group for two or three years, Camara has won in the midfield of Saint-Etienne for several weeks.
Since the injury of Zaydou Youssouf, last season.
Little by little, it makes its hole.
"He has an impressive athletic impact," whispered a member of the club.
Puel has confidence in him and the departure of M'Vila should give him even more playing time. He has less technical qualities than the former Braga player but he is nonetheless essential, currently, in the device Stéphanois.
Lucas Gourna-Douath, 17 years old.
This is the club's new nugget.
Internally, at the club, trainers compare the young player to Paul Pogba.
Originally from the Paris region (as a youngster, he played at Sénart-Moissy and Torcy in Seine-et-Marne), he is currently the 4th midfielder in the hierarchy.
He is young and Puel intends to integrate him little by little.
Prepare it.
It will have to be watched closely over the next few years.
He could well become the next big “bankable” player from the training center after Saliba and Fofana.
Big potential, in any case.
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Aimen Moueffek, 19 years old.
He is also very young.
At the club since 2012, a pure product of Saint-Etienne training, he won the Gambardella Cup in 2019. A training midfielder, he “helps out” as a right-back now.
And he helps out more than well,
"
even if in the future, Aimen's place will be in the middle of the field," Puel says.
He really liked the coach during the preparation and we should see him regularly this season.
Very strong in duels.