It seems much longer than just over two years since Mauricio Pochettino sat in the National Stadium in Singapore and told a room full of journalists he would probably have quit as Tottenham manager if they had won the Champions League final six weeks earlier.

But after the final, I felt it was not great to finish like this," he continued. "I am not a person that avoids facing problems. I love a massive challenge."

Back then, nobody could have known just what problems Spurs would face, nor the true extent of the challenge in front of them.

No-one knew that Pochettino would be gone within four months, nor that his successor, Jose Mourinho, would follow him out of the exit door not that long afterwards. No-one knew that a global pandemic would deliver a financial kick in the guts so severe chairman Daniel Levy estimates it will cost Tottenham £200m in non-recoverable revenue.

There will be no Champions League final for Spurs this season. That their European campaign comes in the newly formed Europa Conference League is a dent to their pride only softened by the knowledge old rivals Arsenal miss out completely.

With another new manager at the helm in Nuno Espirito Santo, in a sense, it feels like a completely different club.