Vasque Stays: Five-Year Extension, No Release Clause

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João Vasque has signed a five-year extension at Mancunia running to 2031, with — pointedly — no release clause. Edgbaston's £90m thesis collapses back into an unspent budget and a lesson: the club that keeps a superstar rarely does it by outbidding anyone. It does it by making the player believe, concretely, that the best version of his career is already here. Mancunia made that case. Edgbaston, for all their money, never got the chance to. The season can now, finally, begin.