• Didier Deschamps delivered this Thursday the list of players called for the next two matches of the France team, against Austria and Denmark (September 22 and 25).

  • Faced with numerous absences, the coach called up three newcomers (Badiashile, Fofana and Kolo Muani) and brought Olivier Giroud out of the boxes. 

  • More generally, he also spoke about the current climate around the Blues, not the most serene.

    Assure him to stay.

Didier Deschamps assures him, he is "never worried".

There is necessarily a part of bluff in there, but we are still happy to hear the coach of the France team say it, because there is at the moment enough to tear some hair out about bruises.

Two months before the World Cup, the bad news is piling up, between injured players and extra-sporting affairs.

“The climate is quite disturbed, but not disturbing as far as I am concerned,” he summed up this Thursday when announcing his list for the matches against Austria (September 22) and Denmark ( 25), the last before the big leap in Qatar.

The Pogba case

Throughout this press conference, he tried to clear the ground, putting on as smiley and relaxed a face as possible.

On the field side, forced to do without Kimpembe, Hernandez, Kanté, Pogba, Coman and Benzema, all injured, he took the opportunity to integrate three newcomers, one in each line – Badiashile behind, Fofana in the middle and Kolo Muani in attack.

Giroud also returns, like every time KB9 is not available.

"We are in the shortest configuration on this rally [d'une dure d'être hardly une Semaine], but there are always lessons to be learned", noted DD.

Inevitably, concerning the absentees, he spent a little more time talking about Paul Pogba than the others, the Turinese having despite himself a busy news.

Knee operated, the midfielder is not at all sure to be fit in November.

“I talk to Paul, he will do everything to come back as soon as possible, but without taking any risks either.

Today, no one, not even him, can say anything, ”observed the coach, who wanted to be very clear on one point:

I never left with a player who might not be fit for the first game.

Paul is not a GO, he is not there to amuse the gallery.

He won't come if he's not fit.

He himself doesn't want that, and even if he did I would say no.

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Even playing a game with Juve before leaving would not necessarily be enough.

From our window, we do not see how the former MU could do more, but we only ask to be surprised.

As for the incredible family affair in which the player is immersed, Deschamps did not make a big deal of it.

Is he afraid of a negative impact on his group, with the appearance of the name of Kylian Mbappé in the middle of the story?

“I am of a quiet, serene nature, he replied.

Do not ask me to intervene in these stories.

Justice is doing its job.

Paul is a solid person with character.

He is focused on getting back on the pitch.

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Deschamps still had to contain himself a bit when answering a question about the recent

So Foot

investigation , describing a toxic atmosphere within the FFF and making accusations of sexual harassment against President Noël Le Graët.

Not always very clear when he went to the field "interpretations between what there is, what there is not", "sorting to do", he was much more so to support NLG .

A preparation ?

What preparation?

“You know my relationship with the president, I spoke to him again yesterday [Wednesday].

If I refer to the sports part, there is so much false information, lies, which with time and repetition becomes nonsense… I can tell you that the president is fine and in great shape”, DD said.

We will learn only a few minutes after the press conference that the FFF has decided to file a complaint against the magazine for defamation.

Anyway, "nothing annoys" the coach.

“The internal force is there, everything is under control, he asserted.

I don't know what can still happen, there are always imponderables.

I have known others, too.

With my staff, we are focused on the field.

“Happy to then be able to “talk about football again”, he made it clear what he thought of the calendar for the coming weeks, and the difficulty of approaching the World Cup in good conditions.

“No, the preparation is not short, there is none,” he repeated twice.

As usual, he will adapt.

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