His grin, painfully leaving the lawn of the Orange Vélodrome on Thursday evening, was heavy with meaning and left little doubt about the rest of the story.
This will be written without Dimitri Payet.
Unless there is an unlikely change in trend, his season probably ended when he left on injury half an hour into the game against Feyenoord in the Europa League Conference (0-0).
According to the first echoes, the playing master of 35 years would suffer from a muscular injury to the calf.
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