“I was the old guy with experience and he was the young player,” recalls Puel, who played more than 600 games in a 20-year, one-club career at Monaco.

“I trained him as an assistant manager and I worked with him about the possibility to shoot. At the beginning of his career he played as a left-winger and when he made a dribble inside he would shoot wide or long. It was difficult for him to place the ball in the goal.

“We worked on the possibilities to dribble inside with a mannequin and, after, to work to shoot with curl inside the far post every time. He worked with this and scored a lot of goals. It became a speciality.”