The scoreline says nothing is wrong. Zidane has taken three wins and a draw from his first four matches as France’s head coach, the former Real Madrid manager picking up where Didier Deschamps left off. Inside the camp, L’Équipe reported this week, the picture is very different.

Two of the team’s equipment managers (intendants) nearly came to blows during Zidane’s first international camp, according to the French newspaper. Bastien Giray, promoted from the France Under-21s, told management that his colleague Kamel Lahlouh was “ready to come to blows with him”, a complaint relayed by Footmercato. Lahlouh had joined the senior staff through his links to former France goalkeeper Fabien Barthez.

Giray asked for the hierarchy to step in. Nobody did.

Supervisors led by Éric Latronico took no visible action, L’Équipe reports, and Giray was left feeling his complaint had been quietly buried to avoid antagonising those close to Zidane. He has since gone on sick leave. For the current November window, former France U-21 intendant Julien Mimito has been drafted in to replace him.

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The €10,000 sock-tape blunder

The off-pitch mishaps did not stop at a staff dispute. UEFA fined the French federation €10,000 after Zidane’s side faced Belgium in the Nations League, when the players turned up with the wrong-coloured tape on their socks and the kick-off was delayed while they fixed it.

That followed Zidane’s debut on 25 September in İzmit, where France beat Turkey 1-0 in the UEFA Nations League. The pre-match choreography there was equally ragged. Kylian Mbappé was left standing alone holding the Turkish flag after the two teams walked out. Michael Olise had to clear a warm-up tray off the pitch after the anthems. Zidane himself missed the opening bars of La Marseillaise because he could not hear it begin.

L’Équipe: problems reach beyond the kit room

L’Équipe says the issues reach beyond the intendants, into how certain organisational and personnel files are being handled inside the France set-up.

Adjustments are expected before the next camp.

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