Nine players from the France team will not be able to attempt to achieve the double World Cup - European Nations Championship.
Didier Deschamps has, in fact, decided not to renew nine of the 23 world champions in Russia in 2018 for various reasons.
In goals, Alphonse Areola was supplanted by Lille goalkeeper Mike Maignan.
The latter was one of the great if not the great architect of the probable future champion of France.
For his part, Areola will go down in Championship with his English club Fulham.
In defense, Adil Rami is the first world champion to have stopped his playing career last year after a stint at Boavista (Portuguese D1). Samuel Umtiti, the only scorer in the semi-final of the World Cup against Belgium, paid for his many injuries at FC Barcelona and his poor playing time for 3 years. Djibril Sidibé, replacing Benjamin Pavard, has been in better shape for several weeks with AS Monaco but he was starting too far against the competition from Léo Dubois, indisputable holder in Lyon and present at each rally for a long time. Left side Benjamin Mendy has lost his starting place in Manchester City while Lucas Digne is a solid understudy of Lucas Hernandez in Blue since the World Cup.
In the middle, the former Parisian Blaise Matuidi (89 caps) moved away from the Blues by choosing to sign in the United States at Inter Miami last year.
Steven Nzonzi, author of a good second period (in place of N'Golo Kanté) in the World Cup final against Croatia (4-2), had a contrasting season with Stade Rennais.
Nabil Fekir has had a convincing season with Betis Sevilla but he suffers from the big competition in his sector of play with in particular Ousmane Dembélé, Kingsley Coman and Marcus Thuram.
In front, Florian Thauvin who will join André-Pierre Gignac at the Mexican club of Tigers
Next year, achieved a decent year (8 goals, 10 assists) at OM but well below that which allowed him to integrate the Blues in the 2018 World Cup.
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