Dylan Tait and Lawrence Shankland (left) were the only starting Scots when Dundee United and Rangers kicked off the Premiership season on 31 July
Robbie Ure made his debut for Rangers at the age of 18, a goalscoring appearance in a League Cup tie against Queen of the South in August 2022.
The teenage striker played two more games that season - or more accurately, one minute apiece in two different Premiership games six months apart, against St Mirren in the November, against Hibs in the May.
For a young man keen to play, the meagre rations that Rangers served up weren't enough. Even though Rangers were toiling on all fronts, his prospects of game time were not high.
In Ure's position, Rangers spent £6m on Danilo (with wages, cumulative cost to date of about £10m) and £3.5m on Sam Lammers (more than £4m if you include salary). With no prospects at Ibrox, Ure left for Anderlecht in Belgium and then IK Sirius in Sweden.
At Sirius, Ure has matured and excelled. He's now 22 and on a run of 15 goals in 15 games, including 10 in his last six. News came through on Sunday that Sevilla are interested in signing him for close to £8m.
Having lost 2-1 at home to Hibs the same day, the collective Rangers' mood won't have been lifted by the story of the former academy kid they allowed to leave for nothing being courted in a multi-million pound deal involving one of Spain's most storied clubs.
If the deal does go through it will be private grist to the mill of the Scottish FA as they prepare for their "critically important" forum with the owners and CEOs of Scotland's senior clubs in St Andrews next month.
Billed as 'Made In Scotland?' the presentation will be led by SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell and his chief football officer, Craig Mulholland. It's tantamount to a plea to clubs, mostly Premiership clubs, to look at their pathways and give young Scottish players more of a chance to show what they've got.
If they were minded, which in the interests of diplomacy they surely won't be, Maxwell and Mulholland could cite the Ure case to back up their essential point. If only they'd trusted their youth they might have saved themselves one fortune and then made themselves another by developing him and selling him years later.
Things are more complicated than that, of course. Ure might not have shown the promise then that he's showing now. There is an element of 20-20 hindsight about this, but it's still a sore one for Rangers just as Celtic will have been sore after hardly playing a young Ben Doak, now Gannon-Doak, and subsequently losing him to English football. Another multi-million pound boy that got away.
We don't need the statistics of the opening two weeks of the Premiership to highlight the obvious need for the summit, but they highlight the problem nonetheless.
Across the opening two rounds of the top-flight season only 31% of the players who played a part in the action were Scottish. Only 5% were Scots aged 21 or under. Forty-six different nations were represented.
There are stark individual cases in all of this, the most remarkable being Dundee United using just one Scottish player - Dylan Tait - in their two games so far.
Ask chairmen, chief executives and managers if they want to have young Scots in their first team and they will all say that they do, that they're passionate about rearing and playing their own. Then you'll hear myriad reasons why so many of them don't - some legitimate, others less so.
There are nuances, naturally. Dundee United will talk about the investment they've made in developing their own players and how their promising 16-year-old, Kai Hutchison, was lured away to Everton, one of dozens of young Scots who have gone south in the post-Brexit age.
