With AS Saint-Etienne in a bit of a financial pickle, the club are looking around the transfer market for free transfers or even loans.
That’s where Jean-Philippe Mateta comes in, with the striker out of favour under Patrick Vieira at Crystal Palace, and while a deal is certainly doable, there are some issues that need ironing out.
Foot Mercato are the ones reporting this on Monday afternoon, explaining the player is ‘in difficulty’ at the Eagles where the former French midfielder ‘doesn’t count on him’.
Crystal Palace ‘don’t want him anymore’ and Mateta is ‘looking for a new destination’.
In fact, he ‘isn’t against’ the idea of going to Saint-Etienne, and he has ‘already spoken with Pascal Dupraz’, the Ligue 1 side’s new manager.
Despite this, ‘there is a problem and it’s a financial one’, as the French club ‘only want to put up 30% of the player’s salary estimated at €45k/week’.
Therefore, to seal this, they will need to make an ‘extra effort’ to get the forward away from Selhurst Park.
