When Neymar was paraded as a Paris Saint-Germain player for the first time after that world record £198million move from Barcelona, it looked like a glorious fusion of ambitions.
After trying the No 10 shirt for size and performing a few keepie-uppies at the Parc des Princes, Neymar sat down before the world's media and declared: 'I want to write history here. There are new challenges and our biggest challenge is the Champions League.'
It came precisely three minutes after PSG's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi had spoken about his own 'dream' to win Europe's elite competition.