In this tournament I noticed that many stars who did pretty well in their various clubs haven't lived up to expectations and their performance are nothing to write home about. We go to England and we see countless number of them who are playing nothing close to what they did in their club side like Foden, Kane and the rest of them but let's talk about the France national team where we have the mask man Kylian Mbappé Lottin, he has been struggling with form in this tournament with one goal taken from the penalty spot and you'd agree with me that the injury he sustained in the first game of the tournament played a big role on his performance and I believe is weighing the team down.
The thing about such tournaments is that it's used as a platform to sell yourself to potential prospects and usually less known players will overshadow the big guns as they try to get potential sells to other clubs!
Another reason the big names aren't living up to their names is because everyone knows what they are capable of and defenders assignments are to stop them at all cost, and it's proving to work!!
Other reasons could be possibly to do with players being afraid of getting injured knowing very well their clubs pay better , hence a reserved approach to the game, but one thing is for sure...they don't make them like they did back in the day!
I really don't see any point in calling these players if that's how it is, the thing is that they can't perform well because some are too tired and need a lot of rest before joining their country side but if you see it the way you said then is a big waste in inviting them since they can't uplift the country in this competition. I don't think it happens in Europe where they don't take care of the players, come to Africa that's where it happens and from how I see it things that these players are trying to do can never work out, I mean trying to play less for their country and play way better for their club, if they do that their market value will drop especially those that wants to make a switch of club.