Man, remember when Joe Hart was going to be the best goalkeeper in the world?
It feels quite a long while ago. The potential. The massive wages. That performance against Barcelona in the Champions League, which was so impressive that Henry Winter wrote in the Telegraph that the 1-0 scoreline 'needs to be accompanied by an asterisk denoting the influence of Joe Hart.'
Just 18 months hence, Hart is at serious risk of rusting away on the scrapheap after a disastrous summer - but the rot started long before that. The whispers hissed around the back-alleys of football punditry for months that, despite the unwillingness of the wider media to criticise the popular Manchester City star, the fall was coming.
The pair of horrible mistakes at Euro 2016 pulled Hart's issues into focus more sharply than most had expected, but the mistakes had been stacking up. He was - and is - too easy to beat at his near post, and his habit of parrying shots right back into the middle of his box rather than away to safety should have been stamped out long ago. It cost City more than once.
Quite a warm welcome for Joe #Hart!
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Pep Guardiola is said to have binned Hart from his first team over worries about his ability to play with the ball at his feet. A cynic might say that, were Hart better at keeping the ball out of the goal, the necessary improvements would have been made as part of his first-team training.
It can be quite tempting to be cynical.
Rather than do the English Footballer Thing though, Hart appears to have accepted his shortcomings. A move to Torino - far from the 'minnows' they were touted as on the Mirror's back page on Tuesday - is a massive step in the right direction.
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It's a step outside of the goldfish bowl of English football, where Hart would surely be subject to more scrutiny than ever. It's a genuine step into the unknown, too - he'll be the first English goalkeeper to start a game in Serie A. Ever. The league started 87 years ago.
It's a mark of bravery from Hart to throw himself headfirst into a country he's never lived in, into a new team and system, far from the superstardom he enjoys at the Etihad. That's not to say he's moving to some tiny pig-farming village or anything, it's still Turin.
But a move to a new league, after a very public dropping by the club he's spent the last decade with, is a certified Big Deal. Cut away from the distractions and the Head & Shoulders adverts, Torino could be the making of Hart.
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