In football, everything is fine. Jules Koundé is currently experiencing. Regularly complimented since the start of the 2024-25 fiscal year, whether in the French team or at FC Barcelona, the 26-year-old defender is picked up in Spain in recent hours. Last night, Hans Dieter Flick announced that the French would not start the championship meeting (victory 1 to 0) against Rayo Vallecano. “Koundé is replaced by technical decision”he simply launched on television, without going into details. But several Iberian media have unveiled before the start that the former Bordeaux player was punished by Flick for having arrived late at a tactical briefing organized before the match. And Koundé was not at his first try.
Koundé the multi -wrist
Indeed, it is the third time this season that the Paris native has arrived late at a meeting. There Cadena Ser Assures that he had already done the blow during the first part of the season, during the victory 3 to 0 against the Deportivo Alavés and during the 3-1 victory against the RCD Espanyol. So he recurred yesterday and it was not at all to the taste of Flick, who sent him to the bench like the two times before. Héctor Fort took advantage of the choice of the coach to make a place in the eleven holder last night. And he even took the opportunity to score points. This is, in any case, the opinion of Mundo Deportivo. “The French delay opened the door to a holder's place for the young side back, which played well against the Rayo Vallecano.”
Koundé, he entered in the second period, becoming in passing the fifth tricolor footballer to have played the most matches with FC Barcelona (125 games, editor's note), a small event spoiled therefore by the new delay of the player born in 98. Besides, the press is not tender with him this Tuesday. In the show Deportivo Carruxel on the SerDani Garrido, journalist and presenter of the show, turned on Koundé. “I think it's a huge lack of respect, that's enough. Knowing that Flick will penalize him to hold, arrive late for the interview … I don't understand what he has in his head. “ Also present on set, Jordi Martí was a bit more understanding.
French is cut
“It can happen to you one day, but I cannot understand it. As the economic sanction does nothing, it leaves you on the bench. ” Like his colleagues, Marcos López does not appreciate the behavior of French. “What additional work should it do except look at the clock and go to the meeting room?” He has a problem and the coach acts with the rigor that is asked. I think it's very good. It is a very strong message for the team. I would extend, in fact, this sanction for a longer period. ” Hansi Flick will certainly not be of the same opinion. But the former Bayern Munich coach hopes that it will not happen again as he confessed after the match at a press conference.
“It's part of football, these things happen. I think it's match day and for me, before the match, we all know what we have to do. There are perhaps two or three meetings with the players and it is very important that they attend it. It is not so difficult to be present and to comply. It is a question of respect. I have to talk to him. It has arrived late, but it is a rule that must be clear. This is what happened today. ” Jules Koundé will therefore have to respect the rules to avoid being cropped again by the staff of FC Barcelona, who will no longer accept the slightest gap on his part.
