The Ligue 1 entertainers have had a forgettable end to the year and are keen on bringing in fresh faces at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard in a bid to return to their usual best in the second half of the 2012/2013 Ligue 1 campaign
Without a win in the league in the month of December, after a very good start to the 2012/2013 Ligue 1 campaign, AS Saint-Etienne need to turn things around.
Three defeats and two draws mean that Les Verts have simply ruined a great start they made to the season and things are not looking good for Christophe Galtier’s side at the moment. And, with a few players departing for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/South-Africa-c757 in a few weeks time in
a bid to represent their respective countries in the African Cup of Nations, the French tactician knows that he needs to find the right players in the upcoming January transfer window in a bid to guide the Rhone club back to winning ways.
However, the club coach is not looking to bringing in a player from a foreign league as Galtier feels that it would be hard to get the best out of a player who is in a new environment.
“But how a foreign player will fit here, a new club, in a new country, in the cold of winter and without preparation,” said Galtier while giving an interview to Progress.
However, that in no way means that the witty tactician will not go for shopping this winter. There are a few players that the ASSE coach is scouting at the moment starting with Nancy Lorraine winger, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Djamel-Bakar-c11362.
The 23-year-old is reportedly tired of how things are going on at his club and wants to be in a team where he at least gets the chance of going for European berths rather than being involved in relegation dogfights.
Under contract at the club until 2013 and not willing to sign an extension, the Frenchman will be available for a cheap price so Galtier would be seriously looking into that matter.
Other players that the Les Verts coach could go for are Monaco youngster Nampalys Mendy, Claudio Beauvue (Istres) and Yacouba Sylla (Clermont Foot).
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