13 of the most famous U-turns in football: Mbappe, Kane, Gerrard…

As fans across Europe can attest, everyone has the prerogative to change their mind – but in football, it can lead to a certain level of infamy.

From committing to one club only to join another to saying you want to leave a club only to then commit, footballers’ words often need to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Here are some memorable examples of players who looked all set to do one thing, only to then do exactly the opposite.

After playing both Real Madrid and PSG for months, Mbappe decided to stay in the French capital and signed a new three-year contract. Madrid reacted as well as you’d expect…

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It was the topic on everybody’s lips last summer. Not Love Island, nor the pingdemic, but Harry Kane’s projected move to Manchester City.

Thoroughly fed-up with Tottenham’s never-ending woes, and enticed by the chance to win trophies at City, Kane pushed hard for a move to the Etihad.

The England captain believed he had a gentleman’s agreement with Daniel Levy that allowed him to leave Spurs. More fool him. Kane stayed put and, under Antonio Conte, looks reborn.

On April 29, 2005, shortly after turning 18, Mikel signed a contract with Manchester United and wore a United shirt in a press conference to announce the transfer. Deal done, it would have seemed.

However, no agents were present when Mikel put pen to paper, and Chelsea claimed they already had a deal in place to sign the teenager from Lyn Oslo having also taken him on trial the previous year.

Mikel went missing the following month before surfacing to claim he had been pressured into signing for United and that he did in fact want to join Chelsea.

He did not return to Lyn for three months and