Gab Marcotti

You have benchmarks.

You have KPIs.

Is it as big a waste of money as Neymar?

It's funny, they want, they want, they want.

I think what they might be seeing, though, is that if the crowds don't show up, because they're still right around, certainly last season, their crowds actually went down.

If you're around the 10,000 person mark in a country of...

It's a big country.

It's a country that loves football, passionate about football.

That's the same population as Spain, right?

Spain, without all those people, without all those superstars, well, different superstars, obviously, they draw 35,000 a game.

So I think they need to have a bit of a rethink here in the business model.

And I can understand why, okay, having him play for free is insulting, if that's really the case.

Equally, I'd be curious to see what he does next.

By the way, you mentioned the 1987 generation and along with Benzema, you mentioned Ben Arfa, Samir Nasri and Jeremy Menez.

But I think fair to say Benzema ended up having the greatest career out of all of them.

But three of those, and I don't know who else was part of that generation, but three of those four, is it fair to say that they all kind of went off the boil and then somehow came back and some didn't?

If you speak French, or even if you don't, you need to go look online.

The French FA made a documentary about the Clairefontaine Academy.

I don't know.

It would have been, I'm guessing, in the late 90s or early 2000s.