In presenting his squad for the matches against Ukraine and Azerbaijan, Didier Deschamps did not shy away from the topic: the players are exhausted. Overloaded schedule, relentless sequences, nonexistent recoveries… the coach describes a physical and mental fatigue that has become “structural.”
Didier Deschamps and the Blues vs PSG, episode 3? After the injuries of Doué and Dembélé in September, the tense gathering in October, here comes November. It’s impossible not to think of PSG and its cascade of injuries.
Regarding the cases of Dembélé and Doué, Deschamps wanted to clarify: normal medical exchanges, nothing unusual on the selection side. And above all, a phrase that sounds like a warning for Paris: “What happens at PSG is their concern. I do not allow myself to judge.”
“I do not give lessons. What happens at PSG is their concern, I do not have the elements. I would not allow myself to say anything about any club; they decide, they have the elements to decide. Just like us. There have always been exchanges, as is the case here with Ousmane’s injury, when examinations are done, they are communicated in both directions.”
Translation: clubs make their decisions
“Afterwards, that the interests of clubs and the interests of national teams are not the same is a certainty. But there have always been exchanges regarding the examinations and diagnoses made. I am not here to change the medical protocol. The fact that we can give more decision-making power to clubs than to national teams is not for me to decide. (…) I am not in Luis Enrique’s place, just as he is not in mine. From the moment his players are on the field, there is a risk. Hakimi and Mendes were not at risk, but they got injured.”
Without attacking directly, Deschamps conveyed his message: if PSG is on the brink of collapse, it is not the responsibility of the French team.
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