“DD” got injured, is it “DD”’s fault again? Let’s translate. Désiré Doué, the prodigy striker from Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), was taken out on a stretcher on Wednesday, October 29, against Lorient, the victim of a new muscle tear which will cost him several weeks of absence. And this time, it will be difficult to accuse Didier Deschamps and the staff of the French men’s football team, with whom the player was injured in September.
The Parisian leaders then launched a controversy to the detriment of the coach, and relaunched the old lawsuit brought by the richest clubs against the national teams. When internationals get injured in the national jersey, it’s the fault of the selections, when they get injured at club, it’s bad luck – or even the fault of the selections.
The long unavailability of the double scorer in the last Champions League final is a hard blow for PSG, certainly not a surprise. 2024-2025 has been grueling for the Parisians, with runs to the Champions League and Club World Cup finals, and an offseason reduced to nothing. The probability that PSG will suffer sportingly from the exhaustion of its players is high, even suggesting an alternation for the title of champion of France 2026.
Threats to performance and spectacle
This is the dilemma of European superclubs. The accumulation of very high-level matches – which they want – threatens the performance of the players and the quality of the show. Saturday 1is November, it is the turn of Ousmane Dembélé, the Parisian Ballon d’Or who was also injured in September with the Blues, to suffer a new muscular alert.
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