It was 48 hours after Phil Foden had delivered history for Manchester City that he sat inside the opulent Mottram Hall, content and absolutely sure of himself in a way that had not been quite so apparent before.
With good reason too. Pep Guardiola had talked glowingly about the academy graduate – 'Phil took the team on his shoulders' – after a season in which he blew the Premier League away, culminating in a brace on the final day against West Ham, the first of which a trademark arrow that chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak had predicted he'd score in training a day earlier.