In an alternative universe, Harry Kane joined Manchester City, Jack Grealish stayed at Aston Villa, Dean Smith kept his job and Steven Gerrard took the Tottenham job.
Whether the Spurs and England captain would've scored just one goal under Pep Guardiola in the Premier League so far this season is another story, but the Catalan won't be looking back in anger.
And so, Harry can wait, given his contract at Spurs doesn't expire until 2024. As they look down from the top of the Premier League, City are walking on by effortlessly at present.
Dom Farrell was joined by Ahsan Naeem, from the Ninety Three Twenty Podcast, live on the City is Ours show on Monday, and the failure to sign a striker during the previous transfer window was on the agenda.
Both thought it was a dreadful error at the time, but now they're not too sure. In Pep we trust!
AN: "The Watford game was the first time that I've begun to have an internal conversation about whether adding a number nine will take more away than it will add to what is now there.
"They seem so well drilled playing in the way that they play that I'm not sure that there's a dramatic improvement that we can go through by adding someone like that.
"I think the collection of players that we've got are perfectly set up to play the way Pep wants them to play."
Dom believes there are only a very small number of strikers who fit the bill as a nine at the Etihad Stadium.
DF: "I think where I've changed my opinion on that a little bit is, in the summer, the Kane-or-bust policy was frustrating.
"We've all seen the Amazon documentary, Txiki [Begiristain]'s big whiteboard, there must have been a list, so why don't you work down it? But now, I kind of get that if there is going to be a striker it is going have to be somebody absolutely elite.
"If we brought someone in like Darwin Nunez, who has been spoke about a bit and looks a real talent, there is every chance he comes in as a raw young striker and spends six months on the bench learning how things operate.
"I think there's only a small handful of players who could work as a nine for City. Whether the Kane deal should've collapsed or not I get why they said, 'we'll stick with what we got'. At the time I thought it was a bit foolish but I can't whack it now."
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