Sure enough, following the election (appointment?) of Patrice Motsepe as Caf president, the question of an African Super League was raised once again.
The concept, a brainchild of Gianni Infantino which was first broached in 2020, has split the continent’s footballing stakeholders, but not quite down the middle.
Despite the Fifa president describing it in such flowery terms as “a new chapter for African football”, the overwhelming majority, at this time, find it to be an unworkable framework, and indeed it would be a pale, forgotten abortus already but for the ongoing annexation of Caf by world football’s governing body.