"We're lucky to have him."
Just one sentence amid a tidal wave of unusually upbeat Evertonian posts on social media this weekend.
Except Everton aren't. Not really.
Social media has been an unusually entertaining environment for Evertonians to inhabit this weekend.
Which isn't a sentence you can often type.
But between videos of the Everton manager being serenaded with a version of Carlo Magnifico - and conducting the singing from his car - screengrabs of the Blues sitting at the top of the Premier League table, and videos of star man James Rodriguez being presented with a cheap bottle of plonk by adoring Evertonians, there was that reference to Everton's classy Colombian conductor.
"We're lucky to have him."
Except Everton aren't. Really they aren't.
James Rodriguez is still one of the most stellar football talents on the planet.
But Everton used to be a football club which demanded - and often got - the very best.
It's there in the Latin inscription on their club crest. Nil Satis Nisi Optimum. Nothing but the best.
But for too long that motto was ignored.
Now, however, under the serial winner in charge of the football club, they are starting to think that way again.
“For a top club, victory is to win trophies, to win the league,” Carlo Ancelotti declared at his introductory press conference in December.
And while some observers might have smiled at the assertion that Everton could contemplate winning the league again, this was a football club which started the Premier League era with only Liverpool above them in the list of top flight title winners.
And even now, 33 years since their last title, only Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal have won more.
"Nothing is impossible in football," said Ancelotti at that same press conference, asking Evertonians to start daring to dream big once again.
Forget taking knives to gun fights, or being careful what you wish for. Evertonians were being exhorted to be ambitious again.
It helps, of course, when you have a man who has delivered some of world football's biggest trophies - to numerous clubs - at the helm.
And kudos to Farhad Moshiri and Bill Kenwright for luring Ancelotti to Goodison Park.
Because without the Italian there would be no talk of titles, however distant, no Allan, and certainly no James Rodriguez.
But while their fans may be blessed to be able to watch the talents of a man who is the very epitome of a School of Science footballer, they aren't lucky to have him.
No more so than Everton were lucky to have the legendary Alan Ball, the peerless Alex Young or the last Evertonian to be top scorer at a World Cup finals tournament, Gary Lineker.
Because Everton should be thinking big.
The Match of the Day presenter - Everton were even first on Saturday night's show - tweeted afterwards how long it had been since Everton had a top flight Golden Boot winner.
It was Lineker's usual self indulgent nod. Everton's last Golden Boot winner was, of course, him.
But despite the drought of goalscoring greats to grace Goodison since he was inexplicably sold to Barcelona, Everton still remains the club which has boasted more top flight Golden Boot winners than any other football club.
Cast your eye down the list. Jack Southworth, Jimmy Settle, Alex 'Sandy' Young, Bert Freeman, Bobby Parker, Wilf Chadwick, the immortal Dixie (twice), Tommy Lawton (in back to back campaigns), Bob Latchford and then Lineker.
That's a roll call of some of the most celebrated names in English football. Endorsement of Everton's standing in the history of the game.
Now Dominic Calvert-Lewin is the early season pace-setter at the summit of the top scorer's chart, with ambitions to join that stellar list.
He has a long and bumpy road ahead of him.
But he is a young man who is willing to work hard, desperate to learn and most of all daring to dream big.
And Carlo is urging Evertonians to join him.
"Come back with more motivation and more ambition," he demanded after the limp finish to 2019/20.
He was talking to his players, but the message equally applies to Everton's fans.
Think big. Shoot for the moon. Who knows? Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
