Kylian Mbappe, his future and his wages are seldom out of the headlines.
Having been rather ambitiously linked with Liverpool several times in recent seasons, as recently as this month when it was claimed that he wanted to leave Paris Saint-Germain just months after rejecting the advances of Real Madrid, a development that would have put a limited number of teams on red alert.
Liverpool were likely not among those teams watching with interest, with the financials to prise Mbappe away from the French capital simply to great for it to make any kind of economic sense, especially with the pressing need to invest in the squad over the next two transfer windows to avert a potential crisis and to keep them challenging at the summit of the Premier League after what has been a tough start to the current campaign.