This was the week when a group of players wearing sky blue shirts broke new ground and delivered something that appeared impossible in modern football.
Not Manchester City, whose demolition of Real Madrid was merely the logical conclusion of super-talented, highly-paid executives spending mind-boggling funds on a super-talented, highly-paid coach and super-talented, highly-paid footballers.
Incredibly impressive, but a victory that somehow left you cold. Because City are proof that when extreme wealth is used extremely cleverly, it can be irresistible. It allows a club to buy Erling Haaland even when they have scored 99 league goals the previous season, or spend £100million on Jack Grealish simply to remodel his game.