Friday, August 07, 2009

Ribery taking a vacation in the Faroe Islands

Clearly Ribery is not ready for the opening of the Bundesliga season nor France's game versus the Faroe Islands. So my question is, why does Domenech insist on having him part of the France group? Maybe it is to build camaraderie? Or to integrate Ribery? Okay the last one was silly. I am just not sure what keeping the Bayern man around does for the squad. Maybe it would be better to bring another player in who might play, but more importantly is fit enough to train, allowing Domenech to see the player with other members of the French national team. There are whole host of other offensive players that Domenech could have taken a look at - Hourau, Menez, Briand, Sinama - Pongolle, Luyindula, even Savidan or maybe another defender - Mexes or Clichy - or maybe even a youngster - Feghouli, N'Gog....Appears to be a lost opportunity for Domenech to take a look at a player that might help at some point during the last push for qualification. Alas, sometimes Domench's methods leave me wondering...oh wait...not sometimes, almost all the time. Sigh.

2 comments:

philip said...

N'gog does seem like and interesting choice. Maybe in a couple years he is only 19

GFC said...

He is young but so is Sissoko. Why not take a look at him?