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M
y first thought was that Monaco STCM was something to do with AS Monaco FC, the football club, and that SSAG was perhaps a player, although it hardly seemed likely that an agent would have been encouraged to buy a player, unless it was one of those offshore, Tevez-type economic rights schemes that had given lawyers and accountants so much well-paid work on the back of a talented footballer; but things were about to become even more confusing for me and, it seemed, very much more awkward for Zarco, to say the least.