I guess it's less strange now. No real drama behind the scenes - just a cosmetic solution to last season's failure and perhaps an expedited transfer process. Although a new DoF isn't beyond the realms of possibility.
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Hard to say how much competition we had to sign Sterling from QPR, but it strikes me as faintly ridiculous that a club of our size should agree to a 20% sell-on clause. You don't hear of that happening very often.