Even now, six days on, the thought of the image still jars: as Everton's players trudged off the pitch at the King Power Stadium, there was their Director of Football warmly embracing one of the opposition.
Steve Walsh, understandably, enjoys referring to his time at Leicester and that miraculous title triumph but, even still, he was misguided in wrapping his arms around his former player Riyad Mahrez when his current club were suffering once more.
It was a moment to put Walsh in the spotlight and that is where he currently deserves to be as the inquest into the biggest spend in Everton's history continues to rage.