“The summer transfer window will deserve a lot more thought to a year in the Euro. The choice to do is very sharp. Even when it is installed at the Blues, from a club filled with international can question everything. ” This is what we said Jean-Pierre Bernes, among other agent Nabil Fekir, Antoine Griezmann and … Didier Deschamps in late March. A prediction shaped board that was generally understood by the 40 players to have visited the castle Clairefontaine since the end of the World Cup in Brazil.
This summer, some have had to make choices: boost his career and take the chance to rub more competition? Staying in a familiar environment to give more chances to be in the good books of Didier Deschamps? A quick look at the fates of 39 August 2014 called for a clear trend emerges: this summer, few Blues who took risks. Despite the omnipotence of the Premier League transfer window dementia and transfers galore, Deschamps’s men played prudence and stability. Only 11 of them have decided to change tunic.
They stayed in their club, despite the solicitations
- Steve Mandanda, Benoît Costil, Eliaquim Mangala, Laurent Koscielny, Benoît Trémoulinas, Kurt Zouma, Rio Mavuba, Moussa Sissoko, Nabil Fekir, Alexandre Lacazette, Antoine Griezmann, Paul-Georges Ntep
These 12 players have not all suffered the same pressure during the summer. But some have been faced with difficult choices. This is the case of Alexandre Lacazette or Nabil Fekir. Their status in Blue remains fragile despite the explosion in Ligue 1. The two men, although aided by new very generous contracts offered by the OL, chose wisdom. The prospect of the Euro has necessarily played in their decision not to be exposed to fierce competition in a big European club. The case of Paul-Georges Ntep, dredged by Liverpool and Bayern, is similar. Even more players settled in France group as Laurent Koscielny and Moussa Sissoko resisted the desires not to jeopardize their status.
Fekir chose to stay in Lyon this summer in preparation for the Euro – AFP
They changed air to give more chances
- Yohan Cabaye, Mathieu Valbuena, Lucas Digne, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa, Rémy Cabella
Yohan Cabaye and Lucas Digne had no choice. The first was clearly warned by Deschamps, the second has disappeared altogether in a group where he appeared in the last World Cup. The two substitutes PSG went to get playing time elsewhere. While Crystal Palace and Roma do not have the same prestige as the current Parisian club but what matters to nine months of the Euro, is to play. In June, Deschamps Cabaye warned: “ To hope to be at his best, with landmarks and rhythm, he needs to find the club “. The media followed his advice.
Valbuena, he chose a better exposure while Dynamo Moscow, his former club is private European Cup this season. As Mampu Yanga-Mbiwa, his new teammate, he joined Lyon to give a better visibility. The Russian league raisonnance fund is not comparable with that of the L1 when speaking of the Blues. Overdue in Newcastle last year, Cabella landed at Marseille hoping, too, type in the eye of DD.
Yacouba Sylla (Rennes) and Mathieu Valbuena (Lyon) in Ligue 1 August 22 2015 Lyon – AFP
They took the risk of facing more competition and a lesser visibility
- Geoffrey Kondogbia, Morgan Schneiderlin, Anthony Martial, André-Pierre Gignac, Dimitri Payet, layvin kurzawa
They are the only ones to have endangered this summer but at different degrees. They are Anthony Martial, by his novice status at the Blues and competition at MU, and André-Pierre Gignac, by its exotic destination (the Mexican league), which are most exposed. But the former Marseille made a cross on the France team and the amount paid by Manchester Martial (€ 60 M + 20 bonus) suggests that it should have the playing time.
The problem is the same for Schneiderlin, past Southampton to MU or Kondogbia. But the two midfielders have more lived in Blue and already hold with their new formation. The danger of their Euro spinning under the nose because of their stable change seems already amortized. Payet, he chose to leave a club that plays the top of the table in France and the European Cup for a resident’s low ranking in the Premier League. It is a risk. Didier Deschamps has not convened for this school year. Even if it’s more its performance in Blue as its new destination that seems to have motivated the choice of coach.
It is finally layvin kurzawa who made the riskiest choices leaving Monaco, where he was an undisputed holder for PSG, where he looks set for a Maxwell lining destiny. With this transfer, it clearly mortgaged his chances of participating in the Euro. Hard to believe that supplant Maxwell to Paris. Lucas Digne has tried. The former Lille it’s broken teeth. And eventually no longer be included in the selections of Didier Deschamps.
French forward Anthony Martial looks we got he arrived for a training session in Clairefontaine-en -Yvelines on September 2, 2015 – AFP
They should have a change of environment
- Mamadou Sakho, Loic Remy
Barre to Liverpool by Lovren, Sakho has paid his playing time reduced in the Premier League. Despite its status as the vice-captain, he finally disappeared and probably understood that his brace against Ukraine guaranteed him more life insurance in Blue. The former Parisian, who had the keys in Serie A (including both clubs of Rome), stayed at Anfield. This is a huge risk even if Lovren makes the meatballs in this season.
Loic Remy’s case is even more desperate. He was never called in 2015 with the Blues and like Sakho, did not play any minute in the Premier League. Rémy went to play with the Blues liners and distant reservists at the Blues. Damage Besiktas and … Crystal Palace have opened their doors this summer.
Raphaël Varane and Mamadou Sakho in the jersey of the France team, when friendly against Spain. – Panoramic
They were not involved in this transfer window
- Stéphane Ruffier, Jérémy Mathieu Loïc Perrin, Mathieu Debuchy, Christophe Jallet, Patrice Evra, Bacary Sagna, Maxime Gonalons, Josuha Guilavogui, Olivier Giroud.
No rumors, no envy elsewhere: RAS for them this summer.
Departure or not their status is such in Blue they feared nothing this summer
- Hugo Lloris, Raphaël Varane, Paul Pogba, Blaise Matuidi, Karim Benzema.
They could sign in any club or so, they are already insured, unless physical or dramatic glitch poor form, to be one of the strong men of the team of France in June. Lloris could have gone to Manchester United, Benzema Pogba at Barca or Arsenal, it would have changed anything since their playing time would not be impacted.
Benzema, Griezmann, Pogba, Varane and Matuidi in France-Portugal – AFP
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