ASSE comes close to disaster, it makes an announcement

While ASSE had a disastrous first part of the season, to the point of being the red lantern in Ligue 2, Laurent Batlles was seriously threatened. But the technician managed to raise the bar and looks back on these moments of doubt at the head of the Greens.

Relegated to League 2I’ASSE was keen to try everything to get back up as quickly as possible. But at the end of the first part of the season, the initial objective turned into a maintenance mission for the Greens who want to avoid relegation to National. A situation that could have been fatal to Laurent Batlles.

Batlles came close to being fired

And for good reason, as revealed by 24hfootnews.com, after the defeat against Bastia (0-2), theASSE set an ultimatum to Laurent Batlles who, in case of defeat against Annecy, would have been relieved of his duties. the Greens finally won (3-2) and chained seven matches without defeat, which relieves the Saint-Etienne coach who returned to this period of uncertainty concerning his future.

“I took it trying to be as positive as possible”

” Like any other coach. It’s part of my job, the job of a coach. We live in good times, bad times. But if you don’t want to find yourself in that situation, you’re not doing that job. I took it trying to be as positive as possible, getting closer to my players. That’s all, nothing more “, explain Laurent Batlles in the podcast RMC Ligue 2 BKT.