Gareth Bale has endured an unusual few seasons at Real Madrid, going from Champions League final hero to a perceived golf-obsessed goober in the space of two years.
He has fallen down the pecking order under Zinedine Zidane, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel as his purgatory period in Spain looks set to end with a return to Tottenham.
A star who was once the most expensive player in world football has seen his stock fall considerably and it's not just in the real world that it is reflected.