Capello's pronouncement that "no one is untouchable" in his side has been borne out by his actions, although he will know that failure in Zagreb on 10 September will provoke bitter recriminations.
He will know that Costa is not used to the rarefied atmosphere of the upper slopes of a grand slam and will seek to unnerve him with those flat, hostile drives.
He will know that Paolo Bettini, the current world champion, chose to race here rather than France out of a belief that the race could be the springboard for defending his Olympic title in Beijing.
But he will know that, in the end, they will be only ten in the sacred archive of tens of thousands of fast, slow, cool, uncool, cheesy, brilliant, funny, startling, thrilling, wonderful movies that exists perhaps nowhere in the world in so beautifully preserved and complete a form as it does in Tarantino's mind.
"He will always be judged against someone with phenomenal success, but he will know that anyway.
"It's his decision and only he will know that," Kroenke said in an interview with the Daily Telegraph .
"If he is coming to Ghana, I know he will feel the Ghanaian pressure, he will know that Ghana is a country which needs to win because we have not won a trophy in a long while".
"He will know that, with the level of performance we have seen from him over the years, especially with this side that has inexperience within it, he is too good a player to be playing shots like he has been playing in this series".
If he gets back a cipher that decrypts to his challenge message using d to decrypt it, he will know that it was in all probability created by someone knowing e and hence that the other communicant is probably A. Digitally signing a message is a more complex operation and requires a cryptosecure "hashing" function.
He will know that he belongs.
He will know that he has been successful if his body emits a sonic boom.
