We are not yet at the end of the Silly Season in France, what the media (though no one in real life) likes to refer to as le retour des serpents de mer. To the best of my knowledge, there has not yet been a sighting of the gallic equivalent of the Loch Ness Monster, but nor has there been much of note to report beyond the several heatwaves that have come and gone and the will-he, won’t-he saga of the PSG striker Neymar, who is reportedly miserable in Paris and anxious to return to Barcelona.