AS Saint-Etienne wants to move on to the winter transfer market. But who says arrivals also means departures, and some have difficulty materializing.
AS Saint-Etienne is showing great things at the start of 2025. The Stéphanois intend to continue their good momentum in order to ensure their maintenance in Ligue 1 as quickly as possible. There is still a long way to go to achieve this and this Winter transfer market is very important to strengthen ourselves but also to remove undesirables. Problem is, everything does not necessarily go as planned for AS Saint-Etienne, who will have to be patient.
A slow transfer window for ASSE is not reassuring
In recent hours, Green People indicates in fact that four players are starting to pose a problem for the Greens: Thomas Monconduit, Lamine Fomba, Anthony Briançon and Florian Tardieu. The reason? The fact that these players do not have the expected offers to leave. Enough to annoy the Saint-Etienne management internally, who want things to settle down in order to be able to recruit and replace them. If a few clubs have come forward to recover the players mentioned above, the problem comes from the fact that they are not keen to leave the ship. As a reminder, ASSE has not yet announced the arrival of any player in January. The new coach of the Forez club, Eirik Horneland, knows, however, that his squad is in dire need of strengthening. There are quite a few days left to find solutions. Saint-Etienne's big priority this winter is to sign a right-footed central defender. Defenders Sadibou Sané (FC Metz) and Adilson Malanda (Charlotte) were contacted. In attack, it is Irvin Cardona who is targeted, and the Greens are hopeful of bringing back the current Ausburg striker by January 31.
