I don't want Silvestre to be in 1st team but I think he's a descent option to have at left-back even as backup.
I do want Thuram to be in there and Zidane though. Thuram quit way too fast and he still has a few good years ahead of him, still very solid good speed and strong and could provide the experience that is missing among the team now with Viera and flop Barthez being only solutions.
I'd like to see France team call up players like Malbranque, Bernard when they play good and NOT only when they get bought by big clubs like Man Utd. (Ex. Saha)
Malbranque was amazing before his injury and 2 years ago was easily one of the best players in EPL yet he NEVER got that call-up which was strange and tepmted him to go even play for Belgium. Olivier Bernard was another example, he proved to be a good consistent player for Newcastle for 2-3 seasons but again NO sign of call up while Givet was ahead of them.
There is also the ones like Frank Quedrue and Laurent Robert who have some quality but I'm not going to argue that those two should DEFINTELY play for France because they have been inconsistent and I could understand if they don't want them there but Malbranque and Bernard really deserved some NT playing time one year ago and were ignored.
But anyways thankfully France has so much talent, not calling up some players and many retiring still won't hurt them as much IF the coach AT LEAST uses what he has the RIGHT way but he doesn't.
He plays a right-footed CB in William Gallas as LB.
He doesn't call up Pires who is the most needed player now that Zidane has retired and clearly in a class of his own even though if he's past his peak he still has 2-3 good years left in him which we should use not let him rot.
Also Giuly is clearly one of France's best players now and should be in 1st team when he's fit and ready.
And while GK is not main problem , for past 3 years I believe Gregory Coupet is better than Barthez now and should've been #1 for a few years now but I certainly hope Barthez is gone now after the Israel match and Coupet given a chance.
I haven't seen Mickael Landreau much this year as I haven't gotten any Nantes matches but he was also a descent keeper.
Anywyas the problem of this team isn't ONE thing right now its a lot of stuff but i've mentioned many of them and the coach is an idiot. He uses astrology to pick teams and play players. He thinks all defenders who are Leos for example are BAD defenders lol. this guy's a real idiot I thought even before I see this article but now I think he's a big fool who unfortunately might embarass the whole nation by failing to qualify for WC and the bad thing is if he DOES qualify he won't get sacked so either way France is doomed just by appointing this fool who looks like Jim's dad from American Pie by the way
http://www.astroboogie.com/Templates/astro-news.dwt
One final note: France National team should NOT I repeat should NOT have Average players. That means no room for players like Steve Marlet who no disrespect doesn't SUCK but he's very average. You don't get picked for national team by being average while someone like Malbranque shines in front of the world for Fulham in Premier League and doesn't get noticed.
Marlet is a descent forward when consistent but not even good enough for Marseille 1st team in my opinion as I prefer Bamogo and Luyindula though a little bit of height could be needed but then again for a tall man he's not that good at heading either.
Anyways he's 30 and since he's not even better than other striking options i dont see why he should be in the team whether Govou gets injured or not. There are many better choices.
