An unusually quiet window for Bruce has also seen Aaron Lennon body-swerve a loan move from Tottenham to the KC Stadium.
SETI researchers have devoted much of their resources to the electromagnetic spectrum from 1 to 10 gigahertz because it offers a relatively quiet window for observation from within the Earth's atmosphere.
Rodgers did say this would be a quiet window after spending £110m last summer, mostly the proceeds from the sale of Suárez, though that was before he knew Sterling would be lining up for someone else in the new season.
But he said that this had been "a particularly polarised window, with only a few clubs flexing their financial muscles, on what was a deafening final day of an otherwise quiet window".
In particular, they discovered that, similar to other fish, blacktail shiners have evolved the ability to pitch their mating sounds so as to exploit a "quiet window" in the natural noise spectrum.
Here's a round-up of how other leagues fared during the transfer window: Spanish football writer Andy West: "It's been a quiet window in Spain, reflecting the deep financial problems that are affecting the majority of clubs - and the country in general.
One morning, I got up early and walked around the neighborhood, in the quiet window between bar closings and the work rush.
For example, Leslie Perlow has implemented "quiet time" windows in Fortune 500 companies (see her book, "Sleeping With Your Smartphone").
Microsoft has strangely been relatively quiet about Windows 8 so far.
The £1.5million move looks like the type of deal that will be pursued this January as managers look for bargains in another potentially quiet transfer window.
