Loris Karius is unlikely to play ever again for Newcastle. But at least this time in reverting to the shadows they will not feel nearly so dark.
We still do not know how deep the cuts ran from that tearful and traumatic night in Kyiv five years ago, when two of his howlers led to Real Madrid goals in a 3-1 defeat for Liverpool in the final of the Champions League.
Given this was his first appearance for an English club since - and first for any team in two years - you suspect that some of those wounds remain unhealed.