Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Jérémy Jacquet was riding high this fall. After making a strong start to his new Liverpool career, the freshly capped France international swiftly earned the acclaim of Zinédine Zidane. After a watching brief against Türkiye, the 21-year-old played every minute against Belgium and Italy in a pair of performances which his revered international boss hailed as “very good” four times in the same sentence. As ever, this sport’s fickle fates soon intervened.
