So there will be no Champions League football for Manchester United. Not £ 100 million. No barbecue, it's fair to assume.
Ruben Amorim and his players went to the place where they call the cathedral in the hope of some salvation from these strangest seasons and found only damnation in the San Mames last night.
A last matching two of the poorest teams in the Premier League ended with United compared to a season without European football for only the second time in 35 years.
Ruben Amorim may think that this is not the worst in the world. More time to work with his players. Fewer distractions for midweek.
But for Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the members of the Glazer family who came to Bilbao last night, leaves a gaping hole in the budget and a big dent in the pride of this football club.
Amorim said afterwards that United has 'two plans' on the transfer market and that they will now work to lower those two budgets.
At the end of the worst Premier League season of United, even the consolation of winning the Europa League turned out to be further than them. A total of 20 defeats in all competitions is the most because they were banned in 1974.
Tottenham could get another one on United this Sunday by going above them on the last day of the season to leave Amorim's side in one place above the drop zone. That prospect of that tour after the season through Malaysia and Hong Kong seems worse than ever.
Spurs did a song on United here. They won without having a single shot on goal. But Amorim's side was just not good enough. Towards the end there was the well -known sight of Harry Maguire who played as emergency striker and Leny Yoro who shoots hopelessly over the bar.
Amorim must take his part of the blame. This was one night to get the big calls well, and it is fair to say that he is inadequate. Neither of them worked out of his two daring selection decisions.
Luke Shaw, starting on the left side of a back three, although he only made his first start in more than 14 months on 27 April, had an unfortunate hand in the goal that Tottenham put in the row of chair.
Mason Mount, picked for Alejandro Garnaacho on the left, despite the fact that he only made his first start of the year on 4 May, was practically anonymous in a competition that was just as confusing as the goal itself.
You could understand that Amorim Shaw played, but he looked shaky before trying to challenge Brennan Johnson before the cross of Pape Sarr and helped to turn the ball past Andre Onana. It was the kind of wrong that you would expect from the player who was still missing match sharpness after so long with injuries.
Amorims decision to start Mount was controversial. The head coach of United has made no secret of how much he admires the 26-year-old. Starting him for Garnacho in Chelsea on Friday night felt considerable and so it proved when he nodded again.
Garnacho is a young man who is not afraid of taking his feelings on social media, and a photo of him who celebrated the opening goal of the United in the FA Cup final of last season against Manchester City, posted on Wednesday afternoon, suddenly got a greater meaning.
With a new platinum-hair-do, he replaced Mount the last 18 minutes of regulation time, but could not reverse the game in favor of United.
Amorim was not repentant after that. “How often have we had this conversation?” he asked.
'Mason Mount met Bilbao (in the semi -final) and changed the game. Who missed a big chance against Bilbao in the first half? Garnacho. Football is like that. I look at the game and try to manage things. '
Nights like this will do nothing to suppress speculation that Garnacho could be on its way this summer if United gets a different offer. He is worth a 100 percent profit on the balance sheet to a club, even more desperate to money after he missed a £ 100 million Champions League jackpot.
With Matheus Cunha expects to become a united player in the near future, Mount and Amad Dialloer seem more likely than Garnacho to stay and compete with the Brazilian for the two no. 10 places in the Amorim system.
Diallo was the best player of United last night, who tangled Destiny Udogie and closest to a goal before halftime with a shot past the distant post.
Rasmus Hojlund, again disappointing again, came even closer when his header was cleared by Micky van de Ven from the line and at that moment it felt like Tottenham's night.
United has found a number of unlikely heroes in this competition, but last night there was no escape, no repetition of the Lyon wonder, because she chose the worst time for the first time to lose in Europe.