As Marseille secured Europa League football on the final day of the Ligue 1 season, Florian Thauvin was voted the club's player of the season after a stellar year that same him called into the French national squad instead of Anthony Martial for the summer internationals.
Having seen how good he has been for the club with which he made his name, it makes his disastrous spell on Tyneside all the more curious.
Florian Thauvin is returning to Marseille on loan, after yet another failed Ligue 1 signing, with Newcastle willing to wash their hands of a player who contributed absolutely nothing despite arriving with a good reputation.
Well, he did contribute somthing, as he played a part in one of the more enjoyable post-match report player ratings we've ever read, as the Toon crashed out of the Capital One Cup at the hands of Sheffield Wednesday back in September.
He got 1/10.