Another year, another contract terminated 'by mutual consent'. The phrase is one of the most loaded in football's sprawling terminology, hinting at broken promises or dressing room fissures: a point of no return for both club and player.
The wording that Olympiacos used in their brief statement that called time on their involvement with James Rodriguez was spare, and for the player, eerily familiar.
It has been fewer than eight months since Rodriguez's previous club, Qatari side Al-Rayyan had mutually agreed the Colombian playmaker's exit ahead of his joining the Super League Greece team, after a torrid year in the Middle East.