The Kop confetti had barely been swept away and the champagne hangovers had just worn off when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer vowed to knock Liverpool off their Premier League perch again.
The league title going to Anfield for the first time in three decades stung Manchester United, the 33-point chasm between these bitter rivals in the final table symbolic of a power shift.
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool winning the Champions League and then the Premier League in consecutive seasons only hammered home how far United had declined from the time when Sir Alex Ferguson made winning look as easy as breathing.