Didier Deschamps Victim of blackmail from a player?

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

Didier Deschamps' list for the Final Four of the League of Nations will be scrutinized closely. Consequence of revelations made by The team About Rayan Cherki. According to the sports daily, the young Lyonnais midfielder, who has long been courted by Algeria and also eligible for the Italian selection, would get impatient.

And the Olympic vice-champion would live so badly to be always confined to the hopes, that it would be ready to give in to this summer to the sirens of Algeria, or even of Italy, if he was not summoned by Didier Deschamps for the two League of Nations meetings on the Blues program, namely the semi-final against Spain and following the result, the final or the match for third place.

This is at least what he would have made known “in private” in recent weeks, adding that he would now refuse to join the hopes despite the perspective of the euro. The threat would have risen to the ears of Didier Deschamps and his staff and would have had its effect.

Didier Deschamps ready to give in

While the tricolor coach seemed eager to leave him at the disposal of the hopes to allow Gérald Batic to have the best possible team at the Euro, the trend would now go to a convocation of the Lyon midfielder, selected in the standard Ligue 1 team during the recent UNFP trophies. The hopes coach tried to chat with him, but without much success.

The presence of Rayan Cherki in the list of Didier Deschamps is not the only question mark. Confronted with the injuries of Dayot Upamecano and Jules Koundé, the coach could thus recall Lucas Hernandez and Loïc Badé, Benjamin Pavard being left to help out in the right corridor. In the midfield, despite a time of declining playing at PSG, Warren Zaïre-Emery should also be called that N'Golo Kanté. Consequently consequence of the absence of Eduardo Camavonga.