As if the January transfer window wasn’t already tedious enough, this week has seen the latest chapter of the never-ending Kylian Mbappe ‘will he, or won’t he?’ transfer saga begin. Again. 

The question is now less about his final destination, but what damage has it done to the reputation of the player?

This is arguably the best player in the world – with respect to Jude Bellingham and Erling Haaland – but certainly the most exciting and most box-office. 

He is a World Cup winner, the scorer of only two World Cup final hat-tricks and so on.

But outside of acknowledging his rather meaningless domestic goals for Paris Saint-Germain.