“The supporters want to be able to influence the decisions of the club”. This is the slogan launched by Thierry Simonnet, the president of Socios Vert, five days after the opening of participations in the project.. Monday, November 8, 717 people have already joined this socios and pledged a total of € 73,153. The collection should last until April with the final objective of being able to join the board of directors of AS Saint-Étienne.
“We absolutely need a mobilization, you have to join us. Whether you are Magic Fan, Green Angels, Union de Supporters Stéphanois, whether you come from any forum, it is important that you join us”.
“We had a very, very good start” assures Thierry Simonnet. He now wants to canvass groups of supporters to raise as much money as possible and is appealing to them. “We absolutely need a mobilization, you have to join us. Whether you are Magic Fan, Green Angels, Union de Supporters Stéphanois, whether you come from any forum, it is important that you join us”.
No club buyout but join the board
The objective is not the redemption of the club, simply to offer a voice to the supporters in the management of their club of heart. Thierry Simonnet sums it up in one formula: “to be a compass” for ASSE, because according to him, “for the past few years, we haven’t really had a long-term direction”. Even if he could not demonstrate Sunday, November 7, with the thousand fans who came to ask for the resignation of Claude Puel and the management on Sunday, he shares their point of view. According to him, the current management would be deaf to the expectations of the supporters.