Now we don't want to start out by shattering any illusions. But let's just say that not all footballers' social media posts are written by them.

We won't go much further into it because we don't want to bring this whole house of cards crashing down, but you can at least be sure that whoever does type out the message and presses send will have got the final go ahead from the player themselves. That's if it isn't the player themselves who has done the sending of course. And it might be. Potentially.

Anyway, words matter when it comes to what footballers are putting out there for the public to see, and there were few messages more touching than the one from Hugo Ekitike's account when the now Liverpool forward left Eintracht Frankfurt this summer.

It feels harsh to edit it down,...