'I was very, very close to another job before I took this one,' says David Moyes, as he reflects on taking West Ham to a level they have not known in years.
Though he doesn't say so, he is describing a Monaco meeting with Everton owner Farhad Moshiri in late 2019, when the club were ready to bring him back to Goodison Park.
Moyes relished the idea, though it turned out that Carlo Ancelotti, who had not initially seemed all that interested, was attracted by the position after all. So that was the end of that.