In what might be described as a parting shot, Alexis Sanchez suggested he might have been a success at Manchester United if only he'd played the full 90 minutes.
Breaking his silence on a torrid 18 months at Old Trafford after starting a season-long loan with Inter Milan, Sanchez sought to explain why he'd been such an expensive failure at United.
'If they let me play a full game, I would win it,' Sanchez asserted.
'But sometimes I'd have 60 minutes and not play the next game and I didn't know why.'
It's a little dig at the managerial styles of Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but actually it is the memory of Sanchez that is hazy.
He completed the full 90 minutes in just 10 matches for United in all competitions and, of those, United won five and lost the other five.
What's more, far from proving a match-winner, the Chilean scored just one goal in the 10 matches he played from start to finish.
This complete lack of impact, and an overall return of just five goals in 45 matches for United while on wages of over £500,000-a-week, help explain why Solskjaer was so desperate to offload Sanchez this summer.
It seems a long time ago now since the excitement generated by Sanchez's arrival from Arsenal in the January transfer window of 2018 and his piano-playing introduction to the United fanbase.
It's also long forgotten that Sanchez actually started a good number of matches early on and usually completed them.
He played the full 90 minutes in Premier League games against Tottenham, Huddersfield, Newcastle United, Crystal Palace, West Brom, Arsenal, West Ham and Watford during his first half-season with United.
Sanchez was also fully involved in United's 2-1 home defeat to Sevilla that saw them eliminated from the Champions League at the last-16 stage.
And in the FA Cup, he completed the Wembley final against Chelsea, which United lost 1-0 thanks to Eden Hazard's winner.
But while Sanchez was chipping in with the odd goal and a few assists at this point, his presence in the side was hardly a guarantee of a positive outcome.
It was last season that things truly unravelled for Sanchez. He completed the full 90 in United's season opener, a 2-1 win over Leicester, but didn't play another full game after that.
He started nine Premier League, two FA Cup and two Champions League fixtures thereafter but was substituted off on each occasion.
Sanchez suffered various injury frustrations but his performances in between were lacklustre and far from good enough to nail down a starting spot.
It didn't take Solskjaer long to conclude after taking over on a caretaker basis that Sanchez was surplus to requirements.
Now it remains to be seen whether he will complete more matches with Inter and whether a return to Italy will resurrect his career.
