Rayan Cherki might be registering a goal and assist every 72 minutes in a Manchester City shirt – another show-stopping afternoon in Nottingham on Saturday to go with the others – but his finest performance was not on grass. In fact, it was holding a mic, not wearing boots.
With flair around the dinner table as well as the penalty area, Cherki’s initiation song back in June brought players to their feet and took the roof off a five-star hotel, Beach Club, in Florida’s rich and retiring coastal district of Boca Raton. French rap doesn’t normally get much of an airing around there.