It's not unexpected. Our boy Ed clearly seeks to redefine his severely tarnished image after a series of awful transfer deals and handing out big-money contracts to players who weren't worth anywhere near their salary. Now we're being reasonable and calculated and measured, you see. Sensible, too.
And while the man should have been fired approximately four years ago, and I'm mocking him right now, this is probably still a better approach than throwing 100k at Jesse Lingard. And in the end they did manage to come to an agreement with Sancho. It's his dealing with Dortmund that once again, shows hubris and makes me think that despite the somewhat more reasonable approach to negotiating personal terms, he hasn't learnt a bit.