While Kylian Mbappé was left to rest by Didier Deschamps for the October gathering of the French team, Ousmane Dembélé was called up by his coach who even started him on Thursday against Israel (1- 4), in a Nations League group match. Not really sharp, the Paris Saint-Germain player once again disappointed some observers. Carine Galli did not spare him in his post-match analysis.
The journalist had some pretty harsh words at the microphone of
RTLwhen discussing the French international.
“I am horrified. He has the same number of selections as Jean Tigana (fifty-two, editor’s note). I will never understand why these people try so hard. (…) In all these years he has been called up to Blue, how many great matches has he had? It doesn’t even fit on the fingers of one hand. And we will continue to have him, and he will continue not to know how to take corners, and he will continue to be a dilettante, and we will be told: ‘Ah, well he scored!’ But finally, his statistics are starving! »
“You don’t even have to be disappointed anymore”
Winded up like a clock, Carine Galli continued:
“And yet, (Didier) Deschamps will always call him. (…) But why in fact? People don’t change. Let’s stop making ourselves believe that people change. Dembélé will remain Dembélé. You have to take it as it is, which is to say frustrating. Dembélé is not nineteen, stop! (…) Dembélé, we are made to believe that he is twenty-two years old. No. He is a player who had to progress and become mature. Did he take that path? The answer is no. You don’t even have to be disappointed anymore. Plus I get angry when I shouldn’t be angry, because ultimately what we saw is what we see all the time. »
In conclusion, the former partner of Giovanni Castaldi sent a message to the coach of the Blues, this time about Michael Olise, a future gem of the France team who also missed his match against the Israelis:
“Olise, I don’t want to hit him, but I hope that Deschamps will shake him up and cheer him up by saying: ‘That’s not a player from the France team’. »
