And so the Gylfi Sigurdsson saga finally ends. While Swansea have lost their all-time Premier League goals and assists leader, they have recouped a club-record £45 million fee, which could fix several seasons of subpar recruitment at a stroke. How Swansea deal with the departure of their star man and how they reinvest the money will now play a huge role in determining the club's future.
This is Swansea's "Gareth Bale money", equivalent (adjusting for stature) to the time Spurs sold their former star player to Real Madrid for an £85m fee, which was then a world record.