Tottenham do not have much to play for in the Premier League and it showed on Sunday.
In their penultimate home game of a dreadful season domestically, Ange Postecoglou made eight changes from the team that beat Bodo/Glimt on Thursday to reach the final of the Europa League - laying out his intentions clearly.
And the second string, as they have done in recent weeks, could not find anything resembling a good performance as they lost 2-0 to Crystal Palace at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
It was Spurs' 20th defeat of the season and shockingly their ninth at home in the Premier League. All eyes are on the Europa League final and it looks increasingly likely that Tottenham will end the Premier League campaign just one place above the relegation zone.
They are 17th currently, with just two games to play.
While the focus is on that Wednesday night in Bilbao against Manchester United, attention will soon also turn to the summer transfer window and the work that needs to be done to improve the squad.
Whether it will be Ange Postecoglou's squad to deal with or not is another question, with plenty of speculation around the Australian's future at the club, even were they to win in Bilbao.
They got an opportunity to see one player they have been linked with on more than one occasion up close and personal on Sunday and they will have both liked and disliked what they saw.
Ebere Eze ran the show for Crystal Palace, sending Spurs to that 20th defeat almost single-handedly. And while Spurs will have disliked the fact that he gave them a footballing lesson, it also showed the hierarchy in N17 what he can do, should they plan on making a move this summer.
Eze scored just before half-time to give the Eagles the lead, slotting home past Antonin Kinsky after good work down the right by Daniel Munoz.
Then, after the break, Ismaila Sarr rolled the ball back for him just inside the area and he smashed in. They were his 11th and 12th goals of the campaign in all competitions, while he also has 11 assists to his name.
It was not just the goals either. Eze, alongside partner in crime Sarr, dictated the play in the middle of the park. He did not give the Tottenham defence a moment's piece and everything came through him.
At 26 he is the perfect profile of a player in his prime, with ample time on his side. And it could be the perfect window to sign him, with him having two years left on his current Eagles contract - it will be the last occasion you would think that Palace could get big money for him.
Tottenham need more guile in their midfield and Eze would give them that. There was a chance to buy him last summer, but Palace did not want to lose both him and Michael Olise, who would make a big-money move to Bayern Munich. Now may well be the perfect time.