Pep Guardiola looked tired when he took his seat on the dais at the Parc des Princes. His right eye was red. He sounded as if he had a virus. He sounded like a man low on sleep and high on worry.
Erling Haaland came in next. He looked like a million dollars.
'Hello, bonjour,' he said with a big grin. It was a nine-and-a-half-year, £250million grin, the kind you wear when you have just signed one of the most lucrative deals in sporting history and life feels good.
Haaland does not appear too often on occasions like this but he batted away questions about the 115 Premier League charges Manchester City are facing as if they were six-yard-box tap-ins.