Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines (France) (AFP)

Lucas Hernandez declared unfit by Bayern but waited for Clairefontaine, Kylian Mbappé still embarrassed but left in the hands of the Blues: Didier Deschamps must deal with the interests of clubs sometimes tempted by the interference, while others are more accommodating.

Between Munich and Clairefontaine, the tone went up a notch Monday after a stinging release from Bayern, "irritated" by the selection of Hernandez, preserved by his club this week in the Champions League and Bundesliga to treat a painful knee.

"I am responsible for the health of Lucas Hernandez and I say: he is not in condition to play the matches of the team of France, so a summons does not make any sense", insisted the doctor of the Bavarian club, Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt.

Asked about this exit, Deschamps tried to lower the temperature.

Their reaction "do not bother me, it's their players, they do everything to protect them," responded the coach of the Blues, ensuring he was "not there to take risks" with the former defender of Atletico Madrid, the most expensive rookie in Bayern history.

The pass began on Thursday, the day of the announcement of the list for Euro-2020 qualifications in Iceland and Turkey, with Munich coach Niko Kovac as a detonator: "I assume that he will not go with his national team ".

Already Deschamps had played the card of appeasement. And that of the joke, with this anecdote: "In September, he wanted me (Hernandez) to summon me so that I put him in the rhythm and that he was good with Bayern! If I listen to club coaches. .. "

The one he "listens" with the most attention, however, is the doctor of the Blues, Franck Le Gall. On the side of the French Federation, we proceed as follows: the chief doctor contacts his counterpart in the club in case of injury, then he gives his opinion to the coach who decides in the last resort, after taking the temperature from the player concerned.

- The Lampard call -

"When the international truce arrives, the interests of the clubs diverge with those of the selection," said Deschamps, calm and firm at the same time: "We have two important matches that can be decisive, it's not like friendlies where one can have largesse ".

The former coach of Monaco, Juve and Marseille communicates more or less with club coaches, according to the affinities and habits of each.

In September, he made the decision not to call N'Golo Kanté after talking with Chelsea coach Frank Lampard on the phone. In October, he made the opposite decision with Kylian Mbappé, still on Saturday with the Paris SG, but called for the trip to Iceland and the reception of Turkey. And obviously, Deschamps is not used to interact with the Parisian coach.

Do you speak with "DD" of these things ?, Thomas Tuchel was asked Friday.

"No".

But you speak with him?

"Not too much, no," laughed the German technician.

- The pressure of Munich -

If PSG is not a fan of interference with the selections, it is a tradition in Bayern Munich.

His bosses Uli Hoeness and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge regularly plead against the international calendar and the obligation to release their stars, which they pay handsomely.

Hoeness has sometimes compared the situation of Bayern to that of an "employer who leaves his best assets at the disposal of another company" and who recovers them sick or injured because of an accident at work.

"I know very well that it is the clubs that pay players," slipped Deschamps Monday. But "when the players of their clubs are not called, they are not happy either because it's good to be in France team, it gives more value," he was amused.

Recently, Bayern has stepped up to defend his goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, threatened in his status as guardian number one of the Mannschaft. In an outburst of anger, Hoeness threatened to no longer make his internationals available, before retracting.

"I do not let myself be influenced by this kind of thing," said coach Joachim Löw. Same tone at his big friend Deschamps: Bayern should not think "they will put me a little pressure, whatever it is".

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