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Claude Puel will have to quickly decide a thorny question

Zapping But! Football Club ASSE: players at the end of their contract in 2021

It was a real plebiscite: out of more than 2000 voters reacting to the call of the EVECT site, ASSE supporters have massively erected Etienne Green (20) as the number 1 goalkeeper of the Greens for the coming season. With 88.6% of the vote, the native of Colchester – author of a brilliant end to the 2020-21 season (8 appearances, 3 clean-sheets) – won the hearts and the confidence of the fans, even passing in front of the one who was presented as the future of the club Stefan Bajic (7%) and the holder of the start of the previous season Jessy Moulin (2.8%).

Claude Puel still not having expressed himself since the resumption of training on June 28, the doubt on the choice of the goalkeeper n ° 1 for the season 2021-22 is not yet completely raised. However, it is hard to imagine that the Manager of the Greens does not keep the suspense with the main stakeholders, he who had settled the issue between Stéphane Ruffier and Jessy Moulin even before the start of the preparation last summer. At the moment, it is difficult to imagine that he does not renew Etienne Green in n ° 1. What was also the trend of the first friendly match against Le Puy (2-2) where the 20-year-old goalkeeper played with serenity the first act before being replaced by Boubacar Fall, leaving Jessy Moulin to attend this first gallop test from the stands.

Jessy Moulin finally left to stay?

The future of the 35-year-old goalkeeper, it will be about the month and a half of Mercato remaining. Jessy Moulin has only one year of contract (2022) and finds himself at a crossroads. Either he agrees to sit down again on the bench after years in the shadow of Jérémie Janot then Stéphane Ruffier, or he leaves for a new challenge. A time interested, the MLS (American D1) does not give him any more news today. ESTAC is indeed an option but not in the shoes of a holder. “We have to challenge Gauthier Gallon, that’s why our goal is to complete the goalkeeper squad. When I say “challenger”, it is not to put him on the bench, it is to give him the opportunity to better approach and better understand the L1, to raise his level “, indicated François Vitali, the director. sportsman from the Aube club in l’Est Eclair. Going to Troyes with a status similar to that which was his at ASSE and probably a lower salary? Not necessarily very interesting. Especially since Jessy Moulin finds himself in competition with other goalkeepers who are free (Yohann Pelé, Mamadou Samassa). For now, everything leads Jessy Moulin to stay in his club forever for at least another year … in the shoes of an accompanist for Etienne Green.

Stefan Bajic will not be selected

The presence of Jessy Moulin alongside Etienne Green in any case opens the door to Stefan Bajic (19), under contract until June 2022 and who refuses to extend. Long presented as the future crack of the post (even if he has rarely shown it to his advantage over his tenures), Bajic has experienced a small downgrade with the emergence of Etienne Green. One year from the end of his contract, ASSE hopes to make a small sale concerning him. It is also in this sense that Claude Puel validated his departure for the Tokyo Olympics … In the hope that he will put himself in values ​​(even if he leaves Paul Bernardoni in the competition) . Stefan Bajic potentially on the start and absent during the preparation, it is the Senegalese Boubacar Fall (20 years old) who has a real shot to play. Arrived in January from Guediawaye FC in Dakar, the current n ° 4 could climb one or two ranks in the hierarchy on September 1.

Green or Moulin, we are waiting for the verdict

If the trend and popular vindictiveness makes Etienne Green number 1 in goals, Claude Puel has not yet formalized his choice at ASSE. His response is awaited and will set a hierarchy likely to animate the summer of the Greens.

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