"My word, he is good," said a rather giddy Thierry Henry back in 2017. "Ooh la la. l really like watching him play. When you have a kid with that much talent, what are you going to teach him?"
The kid in question was Kylian Mbappe, then just 18 years old but already one of Europe's most devastating forwards. His debut campaign in the Monaco first team ended with 26 goals. Ahead of his second, he departed for Paris Saint-Germain in a deal worth £166million.
Mbappe was a readymade star. A player of such talent, maturity and confidence that he was a global phenom fresh out of the box. That, quite simply, is not normal.
