With Manchester United shot-stopper Barthez and Ulrich Rame of Rennes looking certain to travel, Coupet is vying with Landreau and Lionel Letizi, of PSG, for the third berth.
Mr Berry said that there were very few estates which can compete with it in terms of diversity, from the wildness of Rame Head on the southern edge to the sweeping Whitsand Bay on its western edge.