Manchester United were rewarded the last time they forced Cristiano Ronaldo to stay at the club and history is repeating itself 14 years later.
Ronaldo memorably tried to force through a move to Real Madrid in 2008 in which Sir Alex Ferguson point blank told him he was going nowhere.
At 37, Ronaldo is running out of time to add to his records
The Portuguese went on to stay for another season in which he helped United to a third successive Premier League title.
Ronaldo also claimed the inaugural Puskas Award en route to reaching the Champions League final before finally sealing a then-record £80million move to Madrid in 2009.
Fast forward to summer 2022, the 37-year-old United talisman has been told he should accept he's going to stay put once again.
But will the Red Devils' decision to look to their past to decide Ronaldo's future pay dividends or could it backfire?
talkSPORT.com looks at some memorable other times Premier League clubs have decided to force their top stars to stay...
Harry Kane
The most recent high-profile star to have been forced to stay came only last summer when Kane wanted out of Tottenham.
The England captain, who is the club's second highest all-time scorer, was keen to move to Man City and Pep Guardiola publicly admitted his interest in signing him.
However, Spurs' stance was always that the 28-year-old was not for sale and City failed to put in a bid that tempted them to change their mind.
Twelve months later and Kane recovered from a sluggish start to last season to help fire the north Londoners back into the Champions League under the guidance of Antonio Conte.
Kane has two years left on his deal with Spurs but the rumours about him potentially leaving remain, with Bayern Munich and Chelsea linked.
Bayern boss Julian Nagelsmann recently refused to rule out making a move for Kane, something that Tottenham boss Conte branded 'disrespectful.'
Kane seems happy at a Spurs side that have made excellent progress over the last 12 months
Luis Suarez
The Uruguayan explained how Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard convinced him to not join Arsenal in the summer of 2013.
Suarez had made it clear he wanted to leave the Reds after they finished a lowly seventh and Arsenal – then regularly battling in the Champions League – sought to take advantage.
The Gunners infamously bid £40million and £1 for Suarez, wrongly believing they were exploiting the striker's Anfield release clause.
Liverpool were incensed by the decision, leading to that tweet from owner John W. Henry, and briefly forced Suarez to train alone.
It was Gerrard who smoothed things over by urging the forward to stay for more one season and then a bigger club would come in.
Suarez listened and he went onto win the PFA Player of the Year while scoring 31 Premier League goals before signing for Barcelona the next summer.
Steven Gerrard convinced Luis Suarez to stay at Liverpool for another season
Luka Modric
Former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich pulled out all the stops in his attempts to sign the Croatian in 2011 - including holding talks on his superyacht in the south of France.
Modric had just been named Tottenham's player of the season and Chelsea unsuccessfully offered £22m, £27m and then £40m for him.
But Spurs chairman Daniel Levy stood firm, despite Modric even sitting out a 3-0 defeat to United to force through a move.
The midfielder eventually accepted his fate and helped the club finish fourth before sealing a £30m move to Real Madrid in 2012.
Speaking about meeting Abramovich to FourFourTwo in 2012, Modric said: "It was a massive yacht! It was a nice moment and we had a small chat – he's a very pleasant person.
"I met him there for the first time and we spoke a bit, but that was it. That yacht was amazing, though…"
Modric become a club hero at Tottenham
Cesc Fabregas
The Spanish midfielder was Arsenal's captain and talisman when he left for Barcelona in 2011 – much to the dismay of Gunners fans.
But the writing had been on the wall the summer before when Fabregas' boyhood club pushed hard to sign him.
Barcelona had a £30m offer rejected before the midfielder was pictured in a Barca shirt after Spain won the 2010 World Cup.
Arsenal did hold onto Fabregas for one more year but losing the 2011 Carling Cup final to Birmingham City proved the final straw and he had returned to the Nou Camp months later.
It would take another year for Fabregas to officially pull on the famous Barca shirt
Alexis Sanchez
Sanchez claimed he wanted to leave Man United and return to Arsenal after just a single training session in January 2018.
Yet the Chilean had been desperate to force his way out of the Emirates the summer before.
A deadline day move to Man City fell through after Arsenal's deal for Sanchez's replacement Thomas Lemar was rejected.
Having finished the 2016/17 season as the Gunner's top scorer with 30 goals in all competitions, the forward managed just seven in 19 games after his move away failed to materialise.
Then came his Old Trafford switch where Sanchez played only 45 games and bagged just five goals on reported £560,000-a-week wages before being shipped out to Inter Milan.
Alexis Sanchez was quite simply brilliant at Arsenal but left under a cloud before flopping at Man United
Carlos Tevez
The Argentinian was no stranger to transfer sagas during his time in England - and his tenure at Man City was no different.
Tevez first handed in a transfer request in December 2010 citing missing his family in his homeland as the chief factor.
However, City held firm and Tevez stayed to help City claim their first major trophy for 35 years by winning the FA Cup six months later.
The following season came that famous bust-up with Roberto Mancini in Munich which led to a lengthy absence from the team.
Tevez returned from his exile to help City win the title before eventually departing for Juventus in summer 2013 for £12m.
Tevez returned to action on March 21, 2012 after being suspended in September 2011
Wayne Rooney
The England icon twice came close to leaving Man United before he finally did - first in 2010 when he accused the club of a lack of ambition.
Three years later Sir Alex Ferguson claimed Rooney was keen to leave again just weeks before he retired and Chelsea came knocking.
However, incoming Red Devils manager David Moyes was desperate to keep his former Everton protegee and Rooney was ultimately rewarded with a new five-year deal.
The now-DC United boss went on to become United's record goalscorer and become captain during his final years at the club.
Moyes made securing Rooney's future his first priority after joining United
Virgil van Dijk / Philippe Coutinho
Liverpool's transfer activity in summer 2017 consisted of them trying to buy Van Dijk while also attempting to keep Coutinho out of Barcelona's clutches.
However, at one stage it looked as if though they would fail to do either!
First, Southampton forced Liverpool to publicly withdraw their interest in Van Dijk after threatening to report them for an illegal approach surrounding a potential £65m move.
Then the Reds were forced to fend off three bids for the club's chief star Coutinho after Barca bid £72m, £90m and £118m for his services.
Both players ultimately had to spend the first half of the 2017/18 seasons stuck at their respective clubs before sealing their moves.
But Southampton and Liverpool each profited from waiting, as Van Dijk moved to Anfield for a then-record £75m fee a week before Barcelona splashed out £142m on Coutinho.
Coutinho and Van Dijk faced each other at Anfield in November 2017 - just over a month later they'd both sealed high-profile transfers
Riyad Mahrez
The Algerian was the jewel in the crown of Leicester City's historic title triumph in 2016 having been named the PFA Player of the Year.
But while Chelsea ruthlessly and efficiently swooped for N'Golo Kante, Mahrez's ambitious hopes for a move to Spain never materialised.
He never returned to top form in a Foxes shirt again despite being forced to stay at the club for another two seasons.
City made Mahrez their top target in the wake of missing out on Sanchez and having refused to pay Leicester's asking fee in January 2018, the Premier League champions finally got their man that summer.
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