When Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui says: ‘What happens in football usually goes a long way beyond anything you had imagined,’ he knows what he is talking about.
‘I could give you a thousand examples of that,’ he says ahead of tonight’s visit from West Ham in a competition his club has won six times.
Here are just a few: He was about to take over at Wolves in 2016 but he had to turn them down because Spain had offered him the national team job.
He went 20 games unbeaten in the build-up to the 2018 World Cup but they sacked him the day before the tournament because he had agreed to join Real Madrid.