Gini Wijnaldum has a story to tell. His side to his story. About how this midfielder, who wanted to stay at Liverpool, whose influence Jurgen Klopp was so desperate to keep, finds himself smiling down the camera in the stands of the Parc des Princes wearing the badge of Paris Saint-Germain.
There are things he still wants to say. Doubtless, they will include details of contracts and conversations. What was expected and what was offered. Why, after five years at Anfield, he left this summer after his contract expired. The fans, he believes, deserve to know.
They may, for now at least, have to wait a bit longer for the full debrief. 'It will come but I don't think now is the time,' says Wijnaldum. 'I would love to say but I don't think it fits now.'
Gini Wijnaldum has spoken out on his side of the story after his summer exit from Liverpool
The midfielder joined PSG after his contract expired at Anfield and no new deal was agreed
It fits more than he knows and, soon enough, there are things the 30-year-old, fresh from impressing for Holland at Euro 2020, cannot keep back.
He talks about how he's been made to feel loved at PSG, in their negotiations with him, in explaining the project under Mauricio Pochettio, a manager who tried to sign him for Tottenham while he was still a Newcastle player.
It's that love, he says, that he did not always feel towards the end of his time at Liverpool.
'There was a moment I didn't feel loved and appreciated,' says Wijnaldum. 'Not [by] my team-mates, not the people at Melwood. From them I know, I can say they all love me and I love them. It was not from that side, more the other side.'
The other side. A phrase open to interpretation but it does not feel too much of an assumption to sense that Wijnaldum's words are directed at the boardroom.
How the story goes so far is that Wijnaldum and Klopp were desperate to extend his stay. His importance to Klopp was beyond question. Only Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson played more outfield minutes for Liverpool in the Premier League last season.
However, the club's owners FSG were unwilling to budge on their strict policy of refusing to hand out long, lucrative contracts to players over 30.
Jurgen Klopp was keen for him to stay but Wijnaldum reveals he felt less love from others
That suggests he does not feel he was fully appreciated by Liverpool's club owners FSG
It's not just from the owners, if that is who sits on 'the other side', who made him feel unloved. Wijnaldum also says he was singled out, unfairly, by some Liverpool fans online.
'I have to say also there was social media. When it went bad I was the player who they blamed – said that I wanted to leave,' he says. 'Every day in training and in the game I gave everything I had to bring it to a good end. During the years, Liverpool meant so much to me and also the way the fans in the stadium were treating me.
'On social media, if we lost, I was the one who got the blame. There was a moment when I was like 'wow, if they only knew what I was doing to stay fit and play every game'. You get players in their last year who are like, 'I'm not playing because it is a risk'. I did the opposite. I was training hard, I was giving everything. I didn't always play good but after the game I could look in the mirror and say 'I trained hard to get better'.
'I think the fans in the stadium and the fans in social media – my feeling was that they were two different things. In the stadium, I can say nothing bad about them. They always supported me. Even when they came back [into the stadium], already knowing that I was going to leave they still supported me and in the end they gave me a great farewell.'
The Dutch midfielder's final game for Liverpool saw him given a guard of honour on the pitch
Wijnaldum's final game came on the last day of the season against Crystal Palace, in front of nearly 10,000 supporters back at Anfield, now able to say goodbye. He was made captain and given a guard of honour. He soaked in the adulation when he was subbed late on and struggled to hold back the emotion in his interviews after the game.
'It was really difficult. A lot of time I had to fight against my tears. The love everyone showed, and after the game. I didn't realise that would happen. It was beautiful. For weeks after I thought about it. It was really special. Not every player who leaves a club gets it.'
It was not always this way online.
'In the last two seasons, I had it a few times. I also have to say the media
