Nine days after Bilbao, a week after the trophy parade with euphoria that weakens itself, and still there is no clarity of the Tottenham's boardroom about the future of Ange Postecoglou.
He has two years on his contract, but the feeling grows that no news is bad news for the Australian.
Chairman Daniel Levy takes the time to consider his options. Some close to Levy expected him to admit and be at Postecoglou after delivering Spurs the Europa League, a first major trophy for 17 years and the first in Europe since 1984.
But with every day that passes, it seems that he leans more to a change in the dugout.
Levy has quietly exploring alternatives for some time, while the Premier League campaign unraveled. Andoni Iraola van Bournemouth and Oliver Glasner from Crystal Palace played but don't look like they are going somewhere, leaving Thomas Frank van Brentford and Marco Silva from Fulham of the lead options of the Spurs Chief.
Both enjoyed excellent seasons. Both can be tempted in London.
There is a Groundswell of support for Frank, who has made Brentford more extensive and more fun to watch in a season in which only four teams scored more Premier League goals than they do.
His case is reinforced by the Danish link to Johan Lange, the Spurs Technical Director, and the acceptance that Brentford is approaching the end of a natural cycle, under pressure to sell productive attackers Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa.
But there is no vacancy – and suddenly a lot of Tottenham supporters think that it would be the right to be with the man who ended the long wait for silverware, albeit after leaving the breathless brand of attacking football that he brought when he arrived from Celtic.
During the Gala dinner of the League Managers Association on Tuesday, Postecoglou was one of the five recipients of the John Duncan Award, given to those who lead their clubs to historical successes.
If he had been to the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane to collect his prize, he would have found a sympathetic audience that a head coach who brings their team to such heights deserves the chance to continue their work.
Hinging Postecoglou risks to pierce the jubilant Spurs fans have longed to enjoy. Levy will be aware of this.
The Europa League is only the second trophy of its chairmanship and a clear upgrade on the League Cup in 2008, which did not even justify a parade. Just as he will be aware of an unacceptable Premier League campaign, with 22 defeats, ending in the 17th, one place above relegation. This is the dilemma of Levy and perhaps he has been wise to have the emotions established.
If there is a conclusion to draw from two whirlwind seasons under postcoglou, it is that his entire gas valve, 'we never stop' football, with intense training methods that are needed to make it work, is not compatible with the English luminaire schedule and the type of squadron at its disposal. The schedule is not about to illuminate.
More likely the opposite, in fact, with a UEFA Super Cup final now sandwiched in the days before the new season and a return to the Champions League, a completely different level of midweek distraction.
The Postecoglou team was destroyed by injuries that only played 41 games in 2023-24 and was wasting in 2024-25 when the Europa League and a decency
Carabao Cup Run made it 60 games in the same period. First they left the style of football, then the striving for Premier League points.
It is unlikely that the composition of the team will not change much either. In more than two decades under Levy, there are some token in the short term allowances to calm some manager, but rarely an important deviation in the broad approach.
Champions League qualification offers a windfall, but Spurs will not suddenly compete with the richest clubs for the world's best players.
Postecoglou signed for the season after losing 4-1 home of Brighton on Sunday with a cry for Champions League experience to be added to the team.
“Players who played at that level, who will be comfortable at that level,” he said. “Not players who go to that level, that's the difference.”
However, Spurs are locked up in a strategy to sign younger players with a range of development.
So if neither the schedule of the luminaire nor the recruitment policy is about to change, then the style of playing and training methods would probably have to be. Postecoglou, you could say, thought that for himself eventually, moving from Ange Ball to Ange Wall.
Can he settle in a middle ground? Is there a way to turn the things on and off with high-octane? To go up and down through the gears? Is that viable with the Champions League thrown into the comparison? Moreover, is it what Postecoglou wants? It never sounds as it is.