ASSE would prepare to transfer Mathis Amougou, her young midfielder, to Chelsea. Good or bad idea, this is our debate of the day …
“If he does not want to extend, as much to transfer it”
“The love case is thorny. The player fully enters the plans of Kilmer Sports but the Stéphanois leaders fail to extend it while his contract expires in June 2026 and now Chelsea arrives with an offer of € 15 million. The sum is quite important, and as it is Chelsea, and that other clubs are in the ranks, one can think that it is possible to raise the auctions a little.
I tend to think that it is better to transfer Amougou from this winter rather than this summer. No question of taking the risk of seeing him go free in a year and a half, that's for sure, but will his value be greater than the end of the season? For that, he would have to play, and this is not the case for the moment. Its beginnings in L1 are quite laborious and disappointing compared to the potential glimpsed in particular to the U17 World Cup a year ago. Certainly the context is not easy, and one can think that Unegou will highlight itself if ASSE starts to go better with Horneland, but if the Norwegian prefers Bouchouari and Mouton, which had also been the case From Dall'oglio, there may be a reason. So, as the environment does not seem to see its future among the Greens, we take the money and we invest in Lebreton (Caen)? »»
Laurent HESS
“Very, very quickly transfer it”
The nuggets supposed on the start, we know at ASSE. And even very well with the major transfers made in recent years by the former club management (Caïazzo-Romeyer) which has recovered crazy sums through sales of Kurt Zouma, William Saliba or Wesley Fofana. This is now the Mathis Amougou file which would refuse, because the conditional remains rigor, to extend and would even have desires elsewhere. The problem, in my opinion, is not one, so amougou, and unlike the previously mentioned cases, has not yet shown anything. That the young midfielder has certain potential is obvious. But that he has already displayed a huge talent remains to be demonstrated. In their time, Saliba and Fofana had already proven a lot, much more than the French defensive midfielder. We can undoubtedly reproach certain things to Olivier Dall'Oglio, or even Eirik Horneland, but if the two technicians did not make this “great hope” an indisputable holder, it is probably for a (good) or several reasons.
-No, Mathis Amougou is not to this day an essential element of ASSE. Nor the one who will allow us to maintain ourselves. At fifteen million euros, and despite the sign that this sends from the new management of the club, it must be very, very quickly transferred it. Retaining a player against his will has never been a solution. Having liquidity, in the middle of winter transfer window, is one on the other hand. And that is why ASSE, faced with maintenance imperatives, has every interest in using this potential financial manna to recruit on other positions.
With fifteen million euros, we can, reasonably, hope to find a side, a winger and a central defender. In my eyes, these are the emergencies of the moment. That of keeping Mathis Amougou is not one. Painful, all the time, to have to prove to certain young players that they have more reasons to justify their possible talent in a team of Ligue 1 rather than trying the bet of a great Europe which has the candidates for the candidates holders of tenure. Mathis Amougou wants to see elsewhere? Good luck.
Benjamin Dant
