Benjamin Pavard

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Il Drago

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He's left out from France squad again. Better for Inter.
 

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I think his international career is on hold as long as Deschamps is the head coach.
 

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what happened with him and Deschamps?
 

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Its simple, there are better French defenders than him. He started really bad this season.

Hard to make this argument when he's calling Fofana
 

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I think it boils down to position. From what I've seen, France is playing a lot with a back four. Pavard has zero desire to be used as a RB and isn't strong enough to be a conventional CB. His ideal position is where we have him, which is RCB in a back three. It allows him to use his superior technical ability on overlaps without asking too much of him physically.
 

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I think it boils down to position. From what I've seen, France is playing a lot with a back four. Pavard has zero desire to be used as a RB and isn't strong enough to be a conventional CB. His ideal position is where we have him, which is RCB in a back three. It allows him to use his superior technical ability on overlaps without asking too much of him physically.

Maybe but France was WC with Pavard as a RB on a back four.

This is not the same France, yes. But he played at that position before, even though it's not his best place.

And Kounde was shit too, even though he stepped up his game since the start of the season.
 

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Maybe but France was WC with Pavard as a RB on a back four.

This is not the same France, yes. But he played at that position before, even though it's not his best place.

And Kounde was shit too, even though he stepped up his game since the start of the season.

I think the point being made is that there are many players who can play other positions that aren't their best position or their preferred position, some of them even make it clear when they're not playing in their preferred position, but Pavard is particularly militant about it. He left Bayern because he was going to be a RB, mind you this was in a situation that left them with very little proper RB cover (they had already sent someone else out on loan). Didn't matter, he was willing to leave to get his wishes.

To our benefit I guess, perhaps even doubly so if it gives him more recovery time and less travel during international breaks.
 

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Deschamps may have better defenders for the starting XI's but he did not give Pavard a single fucking minute of playing time during the Euros. It was strange because our guy was bossing last season. There should be some personal issue between them.
 

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Deschamps said it's because pavard doesn't play enough games for inter.
Deschamps is a gobbo di merda

He'd exclude Thuram too if it weren't for his friend
 

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I don't think Deschamps being gobbo di merda has to do anything with Pavard's lack of playing time with France lately. Could be different reasons though.
 

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Defensive line in the Euro was Theo-Saliba-Upemecano-Kounde

Perfectly could have been Theo-Saliba-Kounde-Pavard or Theo-Saliba-Pavard-Kounde.

Did Upamecano had a better season than Pavard last year? this is probably what Pavard didn't understand after being a sure starter in the 23-24 with Inter.
 

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Defensive line in the Euro was Theo-Saliba-Upemecano-Kounde

Perfectly could have been Theo-Saliba-Kounde-Pavard or Theo-Saliba-Pavard-Kounde.

Did Upamecano had a better season than Pavard last year? this is probably what Pavard didn't understand after being a sure starter in the 23-24 with Inter.

Upamecano had a horrendous season at Bayern.
 

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Pavard been laying the pipe to dechamps daughter is my guess.
 
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