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The only leverage we had in this deal is the threat that we'd activate his release clause on the last day, when it would be impossible to replace him. Starting to deal with them early in the window would've led to them just pointing at the release clause and telling us to pay up, but since we're closer to the end of the window we have more leverage, so they have to be more flexible.
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