The enigma of Memphis Depay, a man who dares you to misunderstand him

Perhaps in his jarring fall and stirring rise again with Lyon lies a salutary antidote to a game of sharp, sweeping judgments

The longer you spend exploring the strange and spellbinding world of Memphis Depay, the brilliant 26-year-old Lyon forward, the more you find and the less you understand.

Does it matter, for example, that he is partial to the odd cigar, and keeps several boxes in the house? That he has almost 10 million Instagram followers, films rap videos in his spare time, gets his hair cut every week? That during lockdown, he earned the wrath of animal rights groups by posing for photographs with a baby liger? That he failed at Manchester United?

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