For all the talk about Steven Gerrard and Liverpool at his Aston Villa introduction this week, it should be remembered that he was once brave enough to leave.
It was during an interview with this newspaper and the Daily Telegraph in 2014 that Gerrard first mooted — completely out of the blue — that he may not sign a new contract at Anfield.
His management team were nervous about it. There was even an agreement reached with both titles not to put the statement in a headline.
But Gerrard knew exactly what he was doing and saying that day as he sat in a sports centre in Liverpool nominally to promote a new shade of Lucozade.