“I was told ‘what the hell are you doing here?’

Arrived at the club during the 2022-2023 season, when ASSE was in 20th place in Ligue 2 BKT. Dennis Appiah is relishing this promotion to Ligue 1 at the end of a “challenging” season, as he himself described it.

The right side of AS Saint-Étienne spoke at the microphone of Margot Dumont, returning to his choice to join the Greens when the club was on the edge of the precipice. A choice that he obviously does not regret and that he made to experience exactly that moment: “When it’s been three months since you haven’t played, doing an extension is complicated (laughs). A year and a half ago, when I presented myself at a press conference, we were twentieth last season. They said to me “what the hell are you doing here, aren’t you happy in Nantes? etc… I only had one idea in mind, to experience what we are experiencing here. We can be proud of what we have done. It’s been a difficult season, we struggled but here we are, we did it. All this for that, to see these people happy, we struggled for two years and that’s why I came.”

On the return match of the play-offs, Appiah delivers a brief analysis and, like several of his teammates, comes to greet Ibrahima Wadji, author of the goal of the climb, he who has had a nightmare season. Quite a symbol: “It was tough again today, Metz pushed us to our limits, they played the game we needed to. The fact of being ten people even galvanized them. We fell asleep a little then We came back. Honestly, it was hard but we didn’t stop. As we predicted, Ibra’s having a shit season, he’s the one who was going to take us up.”