Kyle Walker to Burnley. Rio Ferdinand to Queens Park Rangers. We don't need to give you any more examples. We know you know the meme: slideshows of Euro 2020's biggest stars in big old 2026, donning their new club's Castore kits, smiles on their faces but the glint all but extinguished from their eyes.
Mohamed Salah in a Trabzonpor shirt felt the most jarring this summer, let's be honest – a little bit like stroking a dog backwards. He still, surely, had something to give at the very top level. FourFourTwo's Kedar Bayley was just as confused, calling it “farcical and rage-inducing” that after claiming he still wanted to compete, Salah at wound up in Istanbul and not even at one of the city's bigger clubs.
