The Blues are back at it again. A month after its rather successful return to school, theFrench team is entering its second stage of the season for its qualifying campaign for the 2026 World Cup. The tricolors will face Azerbaijan on Friday, then Iceland on Monday.
In September, the France group's training camp was marked by injuries to Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué. The two Paris Saint-Germain attackers were forced to leave the castle before seeing their club and the Federation engage in a battle of words.
Didier Deschamps, coach of the Blues.
Tensions are even higher today. The case of Bradley Barcola attests to this. Coming to the castle to have his injury noted at the start of the rally, the PSG striker finally withdrew before being replaced by Florian Thauvin.
PSG opposes the Blues
The nature of Bradley Barcola's injury has been revealed. “ He has suffered a chronic injury to his right hamstring since the Parisian club's Champions League match against Atalanta Bergamo (4-0 on September 17).“, we can read in an official press release published this Monday.
The problem is that PSG categorically contests this version of the facts. “Paris Saint-Germain was surprised to learn of the press release published by the French Football Federation this Monday October 6 on the state of health of Bradley Barcola. The information published in this press release in no way corresponds to the medical information communicated by the Paris Saint-Germain medical teams,” thunders the club. “Ahead of the rally and following the match on the 7th day of Ligue 1 against Lille, Paris Saint-Germain sent the French team a medical assessment of Bradley Barcola not in any way reporting a chronic injury after the match against Atalanta. Paris Saint-Germain also insists that medical confidentiality must be respected for the good of all parties. » A response which tends to prove, once again, that the medical staff of the France team and PSG are engaged in a great imbroglio. In recent weeks, the misunderstanding has turned into conflict.
