While AS Saint-Etienne is currently languishing in Ligue 2, the news of the Forez club is marked by a dispute which is resurfacing.
If the present of AS Saint-Etienne is currently weighed down by a crisis of results and a change of coach in Ligue 2, the club still bears the scars of its recent past. While it was swimming at completely other altitudes, ASSE began its fall three years ago. Claude Puel was then on the club’s bench. And the technician had been in open conflict with the historic goalkeeper Stéphane Ruffier.
In trial with AS Saint-Etienne, Ruffier broke the silence in So Foot magazine. “ As soon as he arrived, this individual wanted to downsize and chose to hit the big guys. By releasing Ruffier, he gave himself credibility for the future, except that he decided to use a very strong approach, making me appear as less than nothing, a guy who had nothing to do in a group and who sowed terror in a locker room. »
Ruffier denounces “daily harassment” of Puel
The former Greens goalkeeper then detailed what he had experienced on a daily basis. “ It involved daily harassment, public humiliation in the press…”. “What I only want is for the damage to be repaired, for justice to be done, because I experienced a year of harassment from a man who set up a demolition company against me,” he concluded, specifying that “the verdict should fall in January 2024”.
