When England fans watched Dele Alli head Raheem Sterling's cross beyond Robin Olsen to send the Three Lions into the World Cup semi-finals, few of them would have been able to predict the midfielder's subsequent fall from grace.
After a brief but largely unproductive few months at Everton, the former MK Dons starlet is on his way to Besiktas on a season-long loan. Just five years have passed since he won the second of his two PFA Young Player of the Year awards, but a return to Gareth Southgate's England squad looks further away than ever.
It represents a remarkably fast fall from grace for a player who looked at one point as though he could do anything in the game.