Téji Savanier has made an excellent start to the season as a playmaker. -
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Twenty-four players have been selected by Didier Deschamps for the international window which opens this Wednesday evening with France - Ukraine.
Téji Savanier, author of a high-level start to the season, is not one of them.
Can he claim it in the medium term?
The Montpellier player is called upon to confirm his performances in the long term and against world-class opponents.
Which will be complicated with his MHSC club which does not play any European Cup.
A start to the season like this does not leave you indifferent.
Téji Savanier shines on the lawns of L1 (even if, like his partners, he missed out on his derby against Nîmes).
So obviously, with this new international window, the question burns a lot of lips.
What if the time for Montpellier had come to put on the blue jersey?
The only one who can answer this question is Didier Deschamps, who did not call him on his list of 24. “He is an interesting and surprising player on what he has been able to do in the last three games, recognizes the coach of the France team.
It is decisive.
If I say that we are attentive to him, it is because we also watch the Montpellier matches and therefore necessarily the club players.
It also depends on who is opposite.
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"Téji, he's anything but a mercenary"
Basically, DD asks to see, in the face of more solid adversity.
Which may be complicated with Montpellier, which only plays in the domestic championship.
The last selected for the French team in the Hérault jersey dates back to 2014: it was Rémy Cabella.
Savanier took back roads in order to assert himself as a major player in the L1 at 28 years old.
From Arles-Avignon - where he signed his first professional contract that the MHSC had refused him at the end of his training - to Montpellier via Nîmes, his choices are those of clubs on a human scale.
Even if it means refusing more upscale destinations.
“He needs a framework and he found it at his home in Montpellier.
Téji is anything but a mercenary, ”emphasizes Serge Delmas.
It was he, then director of the training center, who had signed him to the MHSC, at the age of 14.
It remains to be seen whether these choices are compatible with Didier Deschamps' vision of the very high level.
Courbis: "He could be called in a group of about thirty players"
Time, Serge Delmas also asks for it.
“Téji is pure talent, a player who loves football.
He is consistent, has a lot of qualities.
He knows how to dribble, he is precise on set pieces, he has an extraordinary strike, details the trainer.
Yes, he is able to apply for the France team, But the very high level is to confirm over the length.
We must give him time to demonstrate it.
Its formidable start confirms all its qualities.
But we're only at the start of the season.
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Didier Deschamps could have enlarged his group.
To limit the frustration of the number of players in the stands on match night, he did not do so.
This could have changed the situation, believes Rolland Courbis, coach of the rise of the MHSC in Ligue 1, the year Savanier offered the club its second Gambardella Cup: “two years ago [Savanier was blazing with Nîmes], I compared to Verratti.
I asked that someone prove to me that Savanier was less strong.
I imagined his openings in the France team.
There are a lot of good players in this French generation in the midfield.
But to put Savanier in the thirty players who apply, Didier must think about it.
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