The leaves are only just starting to turn brown and yet Manchester City's week ahead looks like a defining one.
It's too early in the season to suggest a trio of away fixtures against Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Liverpool are make-or-break for Pep Guardiola's team, but they will offer us more clues as to City's true state.
There's something absurd about even hinting a team that have already thrashed Norwich and Arsenal 5-0, won away at Leicester and stuffed six goals past RB Leipzig are in any kind of trouble.