This Wednesday, July 3, at midnight, Thierry Henry will have had to submit the final list of players making up his French Olympic team. That is 18 names, plus four reserves. Until then, no fewer than 23 internationals were preparing for Paris 2024 in Clairefontaine; the vagaries of the transfer window will ultimately have made the coach’s task easier…
This boost, of course, Thierry Henry could have done without; he who will have to deal without Khéphren Thuram, one of his most seasoned midfielders. Why? Because the Aiglon from Nice will commit in the next few hours to Juventus. A Serie A club that refuses to release its players for the Olympics.
Henry thinks about Zaire-Emery
” A player has left, Khéphren Thuram. The club he is supposed to go to is opposed to his arrival. It is a huge blow, for everything he represents, but we have no choice but to deal with it. “, said Thierry Henry today at a press conference. A coach already deprived in the midfield of a key player such as Warren Zaïre-Emery, retained by Didier Deschamps for a Euro 2024 that he is not playing: ” He is an important player for French football, I hope he will be able to get back on the pitch. Afterwards I have no regrets or anything. The best go to the top “, breathes the boss of the Espoirs.
A Thierry Henry who will have to decide by midnight, therefore, between his 18 retained players and his four reserves. Only the third goalkeeper, Théo De Percin, is at this time assured of being part of the second group. It’s annoying. No one deserves to go to the stands. “, laments the 46-year-old technician. A strategist who fears that he will soon find himself deprived of one of his attackers, Michael Olise, who is expected to join Bayern – a club that has already refused to release Mathys Tel.
