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09th Feb 2017

After just one start for Lyon, Memphis Depay’s shirt is already an exhibit in the club museum

Premature, much?

Simon Lloyd

For crying out loud, fellas. Talk about getting ahead of yourselves.

After 18 months of distinct mediocrity at Manchester United, Memphis Depay has a new club.

Having moved to Lyon last month, the Dutch winger’s performance on his full debut saw him demoted to their bench for Wednesday night’s game with Nancy.

Not a great start to life in Ligue 1, but we’re happy to report that in less than 24-hours, Memphis has well and truly turned things around.

On as a half-time sub, the former PSV Eindohoven star won a penalty for his new team and followed this with his first goal a few minutes later. Much better, Memphis. Well done.

While it’s one small step to resurrecting a career which promised so much a couple of years ago, to most people’s way of thinking it’s hardly worthy of a place in a club museum… Lyon, however, disagree.

That very same night, a tweet from OLTV confirmed that the jersey in which Memphis scored his first Lyon goal would be housed in the club’s museum.

If he goes on to score a shitload more for the club, fair dos, but we can’t help but feel that this is jumping the gun a little bit.

Heaven knows what’ll happen if he scores in his next game… a statue? A stand named after him? Hell, why not name the whole stadium in his honour?