Domenech: A grade A C~nt?

[Guest Anders Honoré]

France deliver Makelele warning

 

Makelele insists he has retired from international football

 

France coach Raymond Domenech has warned Chelsea's Claude Makelele he risks a two-game club ban if he fails to report for the Euro 2008 qualifiers.

 

The 33-year-old is in France's squad for games against Georgia and Italy, despite announcing his retirement after the World Cup final loss to Italy.

 

Domenech wants Makelele to play and any player who refuses an international call-up can be hit with a domestic ban.

 

And Domenech insisted: "We still have the law for us."

 

Domenech added: "We had a discussion with Makelele but I didn't ask for his opinion.

 

"For me it would be unthinkable to see a great player playing for a great club not playing for his national team.

 

"A player who refuses to accept a selection is liable to a two-match suspension.

 

"I had a discussion with Jose Mourinho, as I often do with the coaches of our international players, but it was not a matter of reaching an agreement over Makelele.

 

"I told him where I stood, he told me where he stood. We still have the law for us.

 

"I spoke a lot with Claude and told him that he was not obliged to come and play with us, but also that it would be better if he did feel obliged to."

 

beeb

 

what the feck? He is 33 and has just helped carry the team to the finals after postponing his retirement once and Domenech starts threatening him with bans?

[Eiler99]

He's a star.

[Rimbeux]

disgraceful. is there really no such thing as international retitement, is it genuinely like conscription?

[Guest Cameron]

Hmm, interesting case. I think Domenech has a point. If he's still playing football he is still eligible for an interbational call up. I don't like it when players who get called up make a song and dance about it and wax lyrical about it being such a great honour, get made superstars which brings them extra wealth etc. only for them to quit when the fancy strikes them.

I suppose in Makalele's case it's a bit unfair as he's quite old now but when younger players like Shearer and Scholes quit, that's when such action should be called for.

[R A Softlad]

Take the two match ban Claude.

[DazzlaJ]

Domenech is a complete lunatic.

 

I like him. Like a cross between Arsene Wenger and Russell Grant.

 

A fat queer paedophile who'll show you the stars?

[jimmylibel]

Far be it from me to defend Wenger, but isn't that just cross between Russel Grant and no one?

 

Aye. If he'd said a 'fat, queer voyeur' though...

[Dominus Maximus]

While he is at it can't he force a band on Flump Lamppiss and Joke Hole?

[Ostrich Man]

Flump Lamppiss and Joke Hole?

good lord....its getting worse

[Guest Anders Honoré]

it's old for a footballer.

[Guest Derek Cunt]

Pathetic really. Is the man mad?

[Gomez]

Pathetic really. Is the man mad?

Can't believe you were allowed to call yourself that.

[Guest Derek Cunt]

I was a bit surprised.

 

[Guest Anders Honoré]

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Edited August 27, 2006 by Anders Honoré

[Guest redmilky]

Can't believe you were allowed to call yourself that.

Hmm, it seems i wasn't.

 

Bit off i cant change my name for a year now, not my fault the software let me!

[Knox_Harrington]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1860143,00.html

 

Conciliatory Makelele says he is ready to turn out for France

 

Jon Brodkin

Tuesday August 29, 2006

The Guardian

 

 

Claude Makelele has dampened the furore over his selection by France, describing the claims by Jose Mourinho that he was being treated like "a slave" as excessive and emphasising that he takes great pride in playing for his country.

Chelsea's midfielder is believed to have verbally agreed with Mourinho last year that he would retire from international football after this summer's World Cup but will now continue with France, whose opening Euro 2008 qualifiers come against Georgia on Saturday and Italy next Wednesday.

 

Makelele's call-up was described by Mourinho as going against the player's will, and Chelsea have said they will talk to the French Football Federation about allowing the 33-year-old to call time on his international career. It was assumed Makelele would concentrate on Chelsea after the World Cup, having initially stepped down from internationals in 2004 before being tempted back with Zinedine Zidane and Lilian Thuram. However, Makelele disputed that he was being treated like a slave by France's coach, Raymond Domenech.

 

"My coach's [Mourinho's] words are a bit too strong, he's probably gone too far," he said. "But his disappointment is logical. There was an agreement after the World Cup that I would retire. But I spoke with the French team coach and he believes I am still able to bring something extra to the team. I don't blame him [Raymond Domenech] for anything and I will go back and play with France.

 

"This is a delicate situation because I will play more matches and I will be more tired, but I am in the list and I have to go. The French team is still something important for me. Everyone knows me and I am a professional, I do my job and even if my club is not happy I will honour my call-ups."

 

Mourinho has said Makelele had to accept the call-up, claiming for every France game the midfielder refused to play in, he would be forced to miss two Chelsea matches. A similar threat was first raised by Domenech but in fact Fifa's regulations merely state that a refusenik international cannot turn out for his club during the period of the release or for five days afterwards.

 

"There is no Fifa rule to prevent any player stopping his international career, that's up to him," a spokesman for world football's governing body said. "The one thing that has to be considered is that the intention to leave a national team or put an end to an international career needs to be communicated prior to a specific summons."

 

Mourinho may want Makelele to explain to him why he has been persuaded to continue with France. "We take these players but we don't have a knife against their necks," Domenech said.

[Herbie von Smalls]

not so much makalele being a slave, as mourinho being a dictator then.

 

now there's a turn-up for the books.

[Leo No.8]

Ha ha, quality.

 

Domenech 1 - 0 Mourinho. I like him even more now...

[Nathan Explosion]

Hmm, it seems i wasn't.

 

Bit off i cant change my name for a year now, not my fault the software let me!

 

Not our fault you couldn't read the rules