NATIONS - Algeria boss Belmadi slams Delort over refusal

15.10.2021 10:10 of  Claudio Colla   see readings
NATIONS - Algeria boss Belmadi slams Delort over refusal
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Asked about Andy Delort turning down Algerian national team call-up, 45-year old head coach Djamel Belmadi stated:

"I said word for word what Delort wrote, but we call people. Let's face it. It is a decision fraught with meaning. He should have addressed himself first to the press and to the Algerian population. To say that he is going to put the national team in parentheses and that he favors the club because there is competition. He talks to me about the competition in Nice but he does not accept the one that there is in the team national?

Andy Delort has played 11 games and started 4 times. Me, I play with a striker, and we have three forwards. We have done Delort a favor at the CAN and not the opposite as Jerome says. Islam Slimani had the same contract offer from Nice as Delort and he answered 'I wouldn't even dream of turning national team down'".