It seems much longer than just over two years since Mauricio Pochettino sat in the National Stadium in Singapore and told a room full of journalists he would probably have quit as Tottenham manager if they had won the Champions League final six weeks earlier.
"But after the final, I felt it was not great to finish like this," he continued. "I am not a person that avoids facing problems. I love a massive challenge."
Back then, nobody could have known just what problems Spurs would face, nor the true extent of the challenge in front of them.