The last time Bournemouth lost a couple of key defenders in the same transfer window, the year was 2011, and Rhoys Wiggins and Jason Pearce departed for the sunnier climes of Charlton and Portsmouth.
This summer it was Milos Kerkez, Illia Zabarnyi and Dean Huijsen out the exit door - with their moves to Liverpool, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid bringing in a cool £150million between them.
With all due respect to messrs Wiggins and Pearce, that tells us rather a lot about how the Cherries have navigated the intervening 14 years.