ASSE is expected to once again disrupt its workforce this winter. If many arrivals are expected on the Forez side, it should also move in the direction of departures. JP Krasso could be the first to leave ASSE. A good thing for the Greens?
The debate deserves to be posed because the situation is complex. Should leaders divest themselves of their main offensive asset?
We must keep Krasso at all costs
8 goals in 13 games. Top scorer of Ligue 2. 4 assists. Best passer in the league. He is undoubtedly the Greens’ number 1 offensive asset this season. Jean-Philippe Krasso is essential to ASSE.
Excluded from Sochaux, the Greens have scored just once. From a penalty converted by Ibrahima Wadji at the Stade de la Licorne in Amiens. Very little in 3 games for one of the best attacks in Ligue 2.
Without him, the team struggles to keep the ball on the opposing side of the pitch. As a technical leader, he provides a foothold for his partners. Also capable of individual exploits, he has become fundamental for Laurent Batlles’ team.
Red Lantern of Ligue 2, the Greens must imperatively strengthen themselves. Losing one of the most prolific elements in the championship would not go in this direction. The Greens already lack talent. His departure would weaken a group already at its worst.
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Greens need to sell JPK
Jean-Philippe Krasso’s situation has become a problem for AS Saint-Etienne. Last winter, thanks to Claude Puel, Pascal Dupraz arrived at ASSE. The Saint-Etienne scoreboard lets the player know that he is no longer wanted. The attacker left the drill through the back door and went on loan to Ajaccio. A departure that will leave traces in the player shocked by the treatment reserved.
Jean-Philippe Krasso found his smile on the Isle of Beauty and won at the forefront of the Corsican attack. Upon his return, he hopes to leave AS Saint-Etienne to play at a higher level. A club at its worst that didn’t want him anymore 6 months ago.
If ASSE is not closed to the idea of selling JPK this summer, the market is complicated. They don’t want to sell it until they find a striker. And this is slow in coming. The situation then changes when the player performs well. Until he recorded a quadruple against Bastia which catapulted him into the league’s top scorer.
He performs and pushes the Greens to offer him an extension… Although relatively honest, he fails to convince the attacker. The player does not seem to want to join ASSE for a long term and his contract expires in June 2023. If he is not sold this winter, he will leave the drill free without any transfer fee.
Sportingly, Jean-Philippe Krasso marks the time. After a thunderous start to the season, he has been far from flawless since his quadruple. Sometimes enough, he no longer wears ASSE as he could do. Tactically, the player does not hide the desire to play two strikers. What to try several times Laurent Batlles since the arrival of Wadji. Without finding a balance with a bald midfielder. Easier without?
Although he has only 6 months left on his contract, the player’s involvement could also raise questions. An involvement that will be essential to hope to stay in Ligue 2. The player is popular after his start to the season. Now or never parting.
The player is rated
Everyone will have their own opinion. It remains to be seen what decision the board of directors of Saint-Etienne will make at the dawn of a winter that promises to be still agitated on the side of Forez. Everything suggests that the exit door is already open for the new Ivorian international.
Especially since several offers have already fallen. According to information from our colleagues at Goal! there are several interests:
“L1 clubs are interested, but also foreign clubs. A rating that the ASSE could take advantage of to take a small check. The forward refused Dynamo Kyiv, who still offered him a very clear salary increase. And he didn’t “He also responded in the interest of a Russian club. Red Star Belgrade would also be in the running.”
Another complex issue to face for the Greens who will have to make the right choices this winter.
