21.05.2021 – 17:47
In France, the return of Karim Benzema caused a great commotion. Didier Deschamps made official the 26 players for the European Championship. What also surprised is the quality and the big names that make up the other France, the uninvited players.
A team (lined up with 4-3-1-2), worth 450 million euros in the market (according to Transfermarkt), with three of them from Serie A and an attack of almost 300 goals in total.
Goalkeeper: ILLAN MESLIER (Leeds): market value, 17 million euros. Head of the Bielsa team. Born in 2000, he played with the French youth national teams, but has not yet made his debut in the big national team.
Right-back: NORDI MUKIELE (Leipzig): market value, 23 million euros. Born in 1997, the right-back has stood out with Leipzig in the last two seasons.
Central defender: DAYOT UPAMECANO (Leipzig): market value, 60 million euros. One of the new leading defenders of European football, so much so that Bayern bought him for 42.5 million euros, considering him the starter next season.
Central defender: WESLEY FOFANA (Leicester): market value, 30 million euros. Only France U-21, as the highest level achieved by him in the national. The first call for the big French national team has not yet arrived.
Left-back: THEO HERNANDEZ (Milan): market value, 50 million euros. It is no mystery that his name has not yet ended up on the Deschamps list, where a Hernandez, brother Lucas, appears.
Midfielder: TIEMOUÈ BAKAYOKO (Napoli): market value, 25 million euros. Choosing the first 11 for the highest market value, the place in midfield would “go” to Ndombélé from Tottenham or Aouar from Lyon (both estimated at 50 million), but among the big absentees are also two from Serie A. One is a Gattuso midfielder.
Midfielder: JORDAN VERETOUT (Rome): market value, 35 million euros. The other midfielder is that of Roma. Although the ID card is “already” 28 years old, the first call never arrived for the yellow-red center.
Midfielder: EDUARDO CAMAVINGA (Rennes): market value, 60 million euros. Three games and one goal with the great France, still not enough to be called up to the European. For him, the future looks secure. Born in 2002, he has now played regularly in Ligue 1 for two years.
Attacking midfielder: CHRISTOPHER NKUNKU (Leipzig): market value, 40 million euros. Another Leipzig player, who arrived there in 2019 and immediately became the star of the club.
Attack: ANTONY MARTIAL (Manchester United): market value, 50 million euros. Undoubtedly, one of the biggest excluded (even if you read the names of the teams, there are many choices in attack). Only seven goals this season, but does not leave indifferent his appearance in the Premier League, last year.
Striker: ALEXANDRE LACAZETTE (Arsenal): market value, 35 million euros. Prominent striker in the Premier League. Almost 200 personal goals in his career and 17 in the current season with the “gunners”.
PANKINA – Many names that can be added to the list: former Fiorentina goalkeeper, Lafont. Another young player from Leipzig on defense: Ibrahima Konaté. In midfield, as mentioned, Ndombélé from Tottenham and Aouar from Lyon. And in attack we go from Thauvin to Fekir, going through Atletico Madrid’s Moussa Dembélé and a 2016 European star, Dimitri Payet.
