There does seem to be a lot of mitigation and past evidence that was not brought to bear in Dembele's case. I can't believe we were badly advised, I can only assume the club knew exactly what it was doing and if it chose not to make a 'big thing' then there was a reason. Otherwise it seems we'll just continue down the same path as "targeted inconsistency" (by which I mean it isn't really inconsistent if certain clubs benefit all the time, inconsistency would be fine if it was actually random!)