This was meant to be a time of celebration at Tottenham and even more importantly a time to start the preparations for a massive season ahead as Champions League football returns to the club.
The trophy curse has been broken at Spurs after 17 long years and in any other world, Spurs fans would still be in dreamland and those within the club would be working away to start shaping the squad to the manager's requirements for an even better campaign to come.
But this is Tottenham, where nothing ever seems so straightforward. Instead of what should have happened, everyone is waiting to find out what happens next.
Ange Postecoglou and his coaching staff remain in limbo, not knowing whether winning the club's first European title in 41 years is enough to save them from Daniel Levy's regularly swinging axe.
The transfer window is open and other teams are making moves and completing signings yet Tottenham's technical director Johan Lange can only plan for every eventuality while watching the club's rivals act. There is no major international tournament to distract from the market and Spurs have the opportunity to capitalise on others' financial fair play fears with Champions League football as a big lure.
Yet new CEO Vinai Venkatesham began work on Monday and walked into a club stuck on pause when it should be very much in motion after that night in Bilbao.
Levy's decision will surely come soon. The wait has already threatened to suck all of the good feeling out of recent weeks and this period has instead had everyone focused on a limbo where nobody knows what the future holds.
Staff inside the club have no idea what the future holds. They know change is coming across various departments, but nobody knows to what degree and whether Postecoglou will remain as the face of what is now a silverware-winning club again.
In this intervening period, one of the Australian's coaches Ryan Mason has left to take his first managerial job at West Brom, others have likely had offers to move on as well and long-serving executive director Donna-Maria Cullen has departed from Levy's side on the club's board.
Major changes are expected in the club's medical and sports science departments but nobody knows what comes next for the man who stood in front of 220,000 Tottenham supporters and declared that season three would be better than season two.
Postecoglou's last declaration was that he always wins trophies in his second season and he was true to his word. His players have all called for him to stay and support him fully. He turned many of them into winners.
You could easily say that with two years left on the head coach's contract, reportedly one year plus an option for another, there is no need for a big statement to announce if he is remaining in the job.
That's fine, but people still need to know. Likewise if another manager is to be handed the chance to take on the fruits of Postecoglou's labour then the limbo needs to be brought to an end.
This was a time when Tottenham needed to race out of the blocks to build on that trophy triumph and ensure the squad is strong enough to prevent the next Premier League campaign from falling to such depths ever again.
Instead the ticker tape has been swept away, the songs from Bilbao have started to fade and Spurs have failed thus far to harness the euphoria. Instead it's just an awkward, unnecessary silence that's helping no one.