A collision with Claudio Bravo sent Vincent Kompany’s wretched 2016 crashing to new depths.
The beginning of this year was spent in America working overtime with a personal trainer to rid himself of the soft tissue problems that blighted last season.
And it will end with Kompany being assessed by Dr Ramon Cugat in Barcelona following yet another injury, the 35th of his Manchester City career.
This time it was his knee after a latest comeback at Crystal Palace on Saturday. That lasted just 37 minutes, the central defender taken off with concussion before a more serious issue flared up.