It fell to Simon Grayson, almost 10 years ago, to explain why Leeds United had accepted a bid of less than £1m from Leicester City for Kasper Schmeichel.
It was June 2011, and Leeds had just missed out on the Championship play-offs, conceding 70 goals. Schmeichel had a year left of his two-year contract. He wanted to stay. Yet Leeds had decided he was to leave.
'I am trying to improve the back four,' said Grayson, the Leeds boss at the time. 'When Kasper goes, we have alternatives that will make us better.