Last Wednesday, Manchester United crept back onto the market.
It may well have passed by relatively unnoticed, but August 13 was a technically-significant date for the Premier League giants.
Why? Because when the clock struck midnight a clause buried in the finer print of the deal which saw Sir Jim Ratcliffe pay £1.3bn for 25 per cent of the club last February, quietly came into play.
The clause is known as the 'drag-along right' - and while it is not a part of football speak, in the business world 'drag-along rights' are so commonplace that they have three different names for them.