The last of Christian Pulisic at Chelsea is nigh. It has already, in all likelihood, happened. He has played his last game, had a downbeat farewell that never really existed and he has participated in his last pre-season tour.
No longer will he act as a pawn of some commercial American marketing dream while wondering the grand stands of Chicago or North Carolina. There is genuine quesiton as to whether he will even return to the club's training base in Cobham.
With Mauricio Pochettino's arrival on Monday acting as the start of something new, a manager with serious aura dressed in all-black on a sunny Surrey day, Pulisic's place at Chelsea is in line with that of Kalidou Koulibaly, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and the rest of the outcasts.
