The AS Saint-Étienne, a club historically marked by periods of upheavals such as relegations and changes of mercato, has a core of players exceptionally loyal to the green jersey. Despite a largely renewed workforce in recent years, five elements are distinguished by their longevity within the team. These players embody precious stability, linking the club’s glorious past with its future ambitions and showing a rare attachment to modern football. Their constant presence, since the summer preparation or the beginning of the current season, spans more than ten years for some, illustrating a deep commitment to the Stéphanois institution.

Aïmen Moueffek, who arrived in 2012, is the player who best symbolizes this loyalty. Trained at the ASSE Training Centre, it represents the success of the club’s young talent development project. Despite injuries that have sometimes slowed his momentum, he has become a framework respected and appreciated by supporters. It is followed by Maedine Makhloufi (2013) and Mickaël Nadé (2014), who continue the story of a generation of players attached to ASSE. Nadé, in particular, has had to prove its value in the course of loans and difficult seasons, but remains a product of the training centre. Makhloufi, for his part, embodies perseverance, although he has not yet fully confirmed his status in the first team.

Complementing this hard core, we find Jules Mouton and Djylian N Apart from this selection, the entire current staff joined the club after 2020, with Yvann Mason, who arrived in January 2020, representing the last “old” recruit. This reality underlines both the rarity of the loyalty of some players defending the jersey for more than a decade and the need for ASSE to reinvent itself by relying on a new generation to build its future.