Axel Allag, Media365, published on Thursday December 19, 2024 at 7:07 p.m.
A total agreement has been reached between the Greens and Eirik Horneland for the coaching position, according to L’Equipe. Former SK technician Brann just has to sign his contract before taking charge of the team.
ASSE has almost completed the file for its new coach. All that is now missing is the signing of the contract and the formalization before Eirik Horneland officially arrives, our colleagues from L’Equipe announced this Thursday. The one who was elected best coach in Norway in 2022 had already prepared his departure from SK Brann, the reigning double vice-Champion of Norway, by resigning from his post in recent days. This with the aim of being free for a new challenge which will therefore lead him towards Ligue 1 and Geoffroy-Guichard, as announced by L’Equipe after our colleagues from Le Parisien highlighted the main lines of the future contract were almost completed on Wednesday.
He should not lead ASSE against OM on Sunday
This therefore moved forward in a positive direction because, this Thursday, the various parties involved reached an agreement for Eirik Horneland to succeed Olivier Dall’Oglio, who officially left his position as coach of the Greens on Tuesday morning. “AS Saint-Étienne and Olivier Dall’Oglio reached an agreement to end their collaboration yesterday, Monday December 16. The coach, as well as his assistant Gregory Pérès, are leaving ASSE with the imprint of the rise , with which they will remain forever associated,” said a press release.
From now on, all that would remain is a signing of the contract and the formalization for Horneland to arrive at the bedside of a sick and blocked team in Ligue 1 – with a current 16th place. Everything suggests, however, that the Norwegian will not lead ASSE on Sunday against OM in the 32nd final of the Coupe de France (2:45 p.m.), which is what the director of the training center, Laurent Huard, should do at the occasion of the last match of a very complicated year 2024 for AS Saint-Étienne. It is on Sunday January 4, against Reims and in the Chaudron, that Eirik Horneland will visibly manage his first match in his new role.
