Manchester City's Samir Nasri has called France boss Didier Deschamps "a hypocrite" and suggested Tottenham Hotspur's Hugo Lloris contributed to him missing out on the 2014 World Cup.
Despite playing an integral role in City's Premier League title triumph last season, Nasri missed out on a place in his country's World Cup squad, with Deschamps hinting the midfielder had been left out due to his attitude.
In response, Nasri announced his retirement from international football having tried in vain -- through the intermediary of his agent, Jean-Pierre Bernes, whom he shares with Deschamps -- to get an explanation for his absence for the tournament in Brazil.
"I'm angry with him for what he did to me," Nasri, who also missed out on the 2010 finals in South Africa, told L'Equipe. "To deprive me of a World Cup when I had done everything on the pitch to be there ... I'll never forget that
"You make your choice. OK, I accept that, but you can give me an explanation. Especially as I had done everything.
"Jean-Pierre Bernes told him: 'He'll take a plane, he'll come and see you wherever you want.' The answer was negative. [Bernes said:] 'I'll come, you bring [assistant coach] Guy Stephan -- there'll be four of us. At least then you'll have someone on your side, I'll be on his and we'll settle things.' He didn't want to do that either. That's why I'm angry with him. What did I do to you so that you don't even want to talk to me?"
When asked what he would say to Deschamps if they meet face-to-face, Nasri replied: "I would tell him that he's a hypocrite, and that he should have behaved like a man by assuming his choices, and telling me: 'Listen, it's like that. You're not coming, you're not happy, but never mind.' But at least have a discussion like a man."
Nasri sought clear-the-air talks with Lloris, 28, following reports the Spurs goalkeeper and France captain had played a part in Deschamps' decision to leave him out of the squad. French media claimed that, at the behest of other squad members, Lloris spoke to Deschamps about the former Marseille and Arsenal man following Nasri's woeful display in the first leg of Les Bleus' World Cup playoff in Ukraine in November 2013.
"I asked him for an explanation. He told me nothing happened, even though I had had confirmation from a journalist that he went to see Didier Deschamps, having been sent by three players, apparently, to ask him to exclude me from the squad after the match against Ukraine," Nasri, who was left out of the starting XI for the second leg as France staged a dramatic comeback to clinch a place in Brazil, said.
"I called him and he told me it wasn't true. If I get confirmation, perhaps I won't shake his hand the next time we play each other. I don't know."
When asked about his gut feeling on the matter, Nasri responded: "There's no smoke without fire."