Diogo Jota can easily envisage Wolves lifting the FA Cup this season for the club's first major trophy since 1980.
After all, he's already won the Champions League with Gondomar, a third division Portuguese team. 'It went to penalties and I scored,' Jota says.
Confused? That's understandable. Jota is in fact talking about Football Manager, the computer game he plays with the same dedication as when he puts the boots on for real.
In the virtual world he signed himself at the age of 35.
'I won the Champions League in 2031,' he says proudly. 'Whenever I travel I play. On planes, trains. I don't know how many hours I've spent. And I don't want to know!'
Jota has revealed his secret passion after a question that is usually answered with glib affirmation: would he, and friend Ruben Neves, stay at Wolves if bigger teams come calling? His response is unusual and shows thought.
'I like to play Football Manager,' he begins. 'And I like to start in lower teams. For example this game I started with my first club, where I was in the academy, Gondomar. And I like to reach big levels.
'Of course you have to always keep key players from one season to another. You have to have identity on the pitch. That is what a club is. You can't build the squad from zero every season.'
Music, it seems, to Wolves fans' ears. And it rings true to everything Nuno Espirito Santo transmits. He is a manager who has been carefully constructing Wolves since taking charge in the summer of 2017, when Jota also joined initially on loan.
Then 20, he got stick from plenty in Portugal for swapping Champions League Porto for Championship Wolves. Even, it transpires, family members. 'My uncle Ricardo tried to say, "Why are you doing this?"' Jota explains.
There were harsher views too. 'Many people in Portugal criticised me,' Jota continues.
'They were saying, "You are going from a Champions League club to a lower division in another country, are you crazy?" 'I said, "No, I believe in the project and then, if everything goes well, like I expect, next season you have the reason." Fortunately we are here now, and everyone understands.'
That includes Uncle Ricardo, who will be in the Molineux stands for Saturday's FA Cup quarter-final against Manchester United. It is the kind of occasion that proves his nephew's point.
Jota's father Joaquin will be there too and there is growing belief at Wolves that the club can finish this season with silverware for the first time since the 1980 League Cup.
United are obviously a different proposition under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but there was nothing in September's 1-1 draw at Old Trafford to daunt Wolves, and their record against the big six is well-documented. They beat Liverpool under the lights in round three.
'One of the reasons I came here was to play in big cup matches against teams like United,' says Jota, who signed permanently for £13million last summer. 'We know we can win the game but we also know we will have to be at our best.'
Jota is certainly in excellent form. Nuno's switch to a front two rather than an attacking three has benefitted Jota, who has struck up a superb understanding with Raul Jimenez. The pair combined wonderfully to score at Stamford Bridge and for both goals against Cardiff the previous week.
After a slow start to the campaign Jota has now scored six goals in his last 13 games, including the first Premier League hat-trick by a Portuguese player since Cristiano Ronaldo.
'Ronaldo is a reference not just for me but for all people because he's a goal machine,' Jota smiles.
He is a different stature to Ronaldo, standing 5ft10in but oftentimes on the pitch seeming smaller. But good luck to defenders who think he can be pushed off the ball.
There have been countless occasions where Jota's hidden strength has seen him through bruising challenges. 'I was always the smallest guy on the pitch, that's never affected me, I'm used to it,' he says. 'I will find other ways to get through.
'The physio used to ask me if I did weights, I'd say, "No, it's in my DNA." I'm the worst at lifting in the gym. I try to do my best and now players realise I am not an easy shot.'
Jota is a football obsessive and watches a lot of games at home as they are 'like an open book we can read, you are going to learn something'.
This week he tuned in to Juventus versus Atletico Madrid. 'I was excited to see what would happen after Ronaldo said, "Everyone get ready for the comeback".'
Jota was also keeping an eye on his old team Atletico. He never made an appearance under Diego Simeone but he did do pre-season. 'One of the hardest,' Jota says, puffing out his cheeks.
'You wake up at 7am to have a small breakfast, then you go to the golf course running up and down in a small group. No-one is playing!
'If you are one of the captains you have a clock that makes a beep, and you have to reach a certain point. Sometimes it is contoured and other times plain. So we just have to run, run, run, run.
'You have a proper breakfast then you go to the gym, do 20 stations. Lunch. Training is in the afternoon, doing tactical touch and go drills, but in your position. So if you are playing as a left midfielder you have to go there to close the gap, then come back to stop the counter attack in 10 seconds.
'I had a guy throwing up in the first training session. That happens if you are not ready.' Simeone's strategy is predicated on keeping clean sheets. 'Of course, you can not like the way they play but I think what they do, they do very well,' Jota says.
He is still only 22, and awaiting his first senior Portugal cap, but does not reject the question of whether he would one day like to become a manager himself - for real. 'I already discussed that with Ruben, because he wants to be a coach,' he admits. 'I don't see myself as a main coach, but an assistant manager maybe.'
He'll have had enough practice.