Tanaka played a starring role in Leeds’ emphatic 100-point promotion campaign last season and seamlessly made the step up in the first game of his career in a top-level European league. Daniel Farke signed him for just £3million from German second-tier outfit Fortuna Dusseldorf last summer.

Elland Road is something the Premier League, and all of its clubs, miss whenever Leeds United are absent from the top flight. It is a cauldron of anger and noise, a throwback to the bygone era which has put English football at the centre of the sport’s orbit.