It all kicked off with talk of Dundee’s American dream of a transatlantic trip to play Celtic.
Just a few days later it was reported that the Dens club were considering going Dutch with their youth set-up.
The Dark Blues’ week, though, was finished off rather less exotically and closer to home with a point in Perth, as they drew 1-1 with St Johnstone at McDiarmid Park.
It didn’t have the allure of foreign shores but it wasn’t too bad an outcome against a high-flying home team that had been looking to make it six successive victories.
As for Saints, they will just have “settle” for being unbeaten since October 17 instead.
Kane Hemmings had given the visitors an early lead before David Wotherspoon levelled things up for the home team on 13 minutes.
Both goals were crackers and helped the first half sparkle before the fizz went out of the play in the second period.
Saints started with an unchanged line-up and that meant Wotherspoon had recovered from a dead leg to start the game. Liam Craig served the last of his suspensions.
Kevin Thomson was missing for the Dark Blues with a groin injury and that created a vacancy that was filled by Nicky Low. The good news for the visitors was that defenders James McPake and Julen Etxabeguren were passed to play.
The Dens men started brightly and quickly and a shot on the turn from Hemmings after just 30 seconds was well saved by home keeper Alan Mannus.
That was a hint of what was to come from Hemmings as the frontman opened the scoring for the visitors after just two and a half minutes.
A sweeping move saw Greg Stewart collect the ball in midfield then flick it to Hemmings, who then skipped forward before blasting a low shot from the edge of the box past a helpless Mannus.
It was great play by Dundee but the St Johnstone defence should have done more to close Hemmings down as the glided goalwards.
Paul Hartley’s men had made a terrific start but, of course, they were up against that most dogged of sides and Saints equalised with a fantastic goal of their own on 13 minutes.
The move was another thing of beauty, with Joe Shaughnessy finding Chris Kane, who fed Michael O’Halloran on the right.
The in-form O’Halloran, as dangerous as ever, skipped to the byline then cut the ball back perfectly for Wotherspoon, whose first-timed shot smashed off the underside of the bar and then landed in the back of the net.
It was Saints’ first attack of note but there certainly wasn’t anything of the long-ball about it!
Etxabeguren was booked for a foul on Kane before Paul McGowan handled the ball to make it two yellows for the visitors.
Murray Davidson didn’t miss by much on 32 minutes when his 15-yard volley zipped over the Dundee bar then then a great cross to the back post from Chris Millar was headed away from Kane by Paul McGinn as the hosts pressed.
Mannus did well to run from goal to reach a loose ball from his defender Steven Anderson ahead of Hemmings and then ended a hugely-entertaining first half.
Dundee once again started brightly after the break, with a terrific run in from the left wing by Rory Loy causing chaos in the home defence before the ball was booted away for a corner by Anderson.
The Dens men brought on Gary Harkins for Nick Ross, Etxabeguren then limped off to be replaced by Thomas Konrad, while Saints switched John Sutton for Kane.
Wotherspoon curled a shot wide of the far post for the home team on 78 minutes before Riccardo Calder replaced Nicky Low for the Dark Blues.
Stewart was cautioned for dissent then the Dundee fans raised a cheer when Saints got a booking of their own, with Wotherspoon the guilty party. Brian Easton wasn’t long in adding his name to the book.
Stewart let fly with a trademark left-foot shot from the edge of the box after fine work by Calder but Mannus got down to save.
The second half, though, was a shadow of the first and a draw was probably the right outcome.
Sainst weren’t at their best and gave the ball away too often, while Dundee started brilliantly but couldn’t keep it going.
Attendance: 4,598.
St Johnstone: Mannus, Mackay, Anderson, Millar, Davidson, MacLean (Thomson 83), Wotherspoon, Shaughnessy, Easton, Kane (Sutton 75), O’Halloran. Subs not used: Clark, Scobbie, Caddis, Fisher, Hurst.
Dundee: Bain, Holt, McPake, Stewart, Low (Calder 78), Loy, Hemmings, Etxabeguren (Konrad 75), Ross (Harkins 65), McGowan, McGinn. Subs not used: Mitchell, Irvine, Meggatt, Gadzhalov.
Referee: Alan Muir.