Posted on December 22, 2021 at 1:10 p.m. by G.d.S.S.
During the transfer window of January 2020, ASSE could have completed the arrival of a renowned scorer in Qatar, but Claude Puel had refused this operation at the time.
While Claude Puel was laid off to finally be replaced by Pascal Dupraz on the bench of ASSE, it is therefore a new era which begins in Forez. The new coach of the Greens was very clear during his presentation press conference: he wants to see reinforcements land during the transfer window of January, and in particular in the offensive sector which will be cut off from several items due to CAN. And in the past, ASSE would have refused a big operation with Qatar over a goalscorer.
ASSE said no to a Qatari striker
Indeed, Goal! reveals that in January 2020, when ASSE had just sold Robert Beric to Chicago for 1M €, Claude Puel had been offered the services of Ali Almoez (25), a Qatari striker who had just been crowned top scorer (9 goals) at the Asian Cup of Nations 2019, for a two-year loan. But the former coach of the Greens, little excited by the contours of this operation, had refused to bring Almoez to the ASSE .