The teenage defender made Goal's prestigious list of the best young players in the world and has attracted attention from Europe's biggest clubs
It was a boiling hot August day in 2016 when a hitherto unheralded 17-year-old leapt unmarked to head a Jean-Michael Seri free kick into the net. His textbook downward header was to be the only goal of the game as Lucien Favre’s reign at Nice got off to a winning start against Rennes.
It was fitting, too, that it was an academy graduate who got the goal - all the more so given that he was born and brought up in Nice.