On a weekend where every champion from Europe's top five leagues failed to win for the first time since 2014 - Serie A doesn't kick-off until this weekend - attention was understandably focused on what's going on at the top of the table already.
But it wasn't just potential league champions that stole the headlines across the continent, even if those stories are at best sparingly being drip-fed back across the channel.
So with Aritz Aduriz's bicycle kick, Philippe Coutinho's transfer and Paris Saint-Germain's defeat still fresh in our minds, here are six stories which have flown under the radar from across Europe.