Monaco players corrupted in 1992? Claude Puel confirms the words of Manu Petit! – Sport.fr
Like Emmanuel Petit, Claude Puel assures that some Monaco players were encouraged to leave the title to OM in 1992.
Away from the spotlight since his dismissal from AS Saint-Étienne last December, Claude Puel returns to the front of the stage with a biography entitled ‘Libre’. In this book, he notably evokes his long career as a player under the colors of AS Monaco. The opportunity to look back on the 92 season and the coronation of Olympique de Marseille.
“Arsène Wenger (Monegasque coach at the time) had decided to change the team, I did not understand the reason. I then learned that some of my teammates had not played fair, that they had been encouraged to slow down during certain matches.. Revelations that match those of Emmanuel Petit, also a Monaco player at the time. “Arsène passes me the goals in slow motion and ends up asking me: ‘What do you think about when you see these goals?’ I end up telling him that we made rookie mistakes, which is not our habit. He replies: ‘You can leave. This confirms what I also think. Many of us assume that some of our players have been bought by Marseille.told the 98 world champion in his autobiographical book published a few years earlier.