Lost in the haze of Gareth Bale and whether Manchester United will actually lodge a bid to prise him away from Spain stood a couple of Sergio Ramos jibes Jose Mourinho will not care for.
Ramos sat down inside the Philip II Arena the night before this Super Cup final and gave nothing away about Cristiano Ronaldo or Bale. But when addressing the topic of Mourinho, the inferences were not overly cute.
The Real Madrid captain suggested Mourinho did not fully grasp the Bernabeu's dressing room dynamic and, more pointedly, flatly refused the notion that his former manager was crucial in transforming his career with a switch from right back to centre half.