AS Saint-Etienne and Stade Rennais have one thing in common, which is having changed coaches during this first part of the season. This is good, the Greens should be able to benefit from the arrival of Jorge Sampaoli in Brittany.
ASSE is not going to hang around during the winter transfer window, which begins in a week, because the Saint-Etienne club wants to quickly offer Eirik Horneland the players the Norwegian coach needs to save the Greens' place in Ligue 1. Currently barrier, Saint-Etienne knows that without strengthening the maintenance operation will be complex and Ivan Gazidis seems to have understood this. Among the tracks on which AS Saint-Etienne is currently working, one would already be very hot, said this Wednesday Sports Dailyand it leads towards a player from Stade Rennais. Indeed, the media reveals that Baptiste Santamaria would be close to joining ASSE during the month of January in the form of a loan with a purchase option probably linked to the Greens remaining in Ligue 1 at the end of the season.
ASSE and Rennes close to an agreement
At 29 years old, the defensive midfielder understood that Jorge Sampaoli was not counting on him, since in the last five matches at Stade Rennais, in all competitions, Baptiste Santamaria played four minutes. Enough to encourage him to leave in the winter transfer window, while his contract with the Breton club ends in June 2026. Our colleague specifies that taking into account Santamaria's salary at Stade Rennais, namely 180,000 euros per month, AS Saint-Etienne is negotiating and would not be far from having found a solution. Breton leaders would be ready to cover a third of the salary of the midfielder he brought from Friborg for 14 million euros in 2021.
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