Newcastle are by no means the only supposed bigger team to struggle against Bournemouth this season.

“Roki is by no means a finished product,” his agent, Joel Wolfe, said last month.

Those actions seem unusual, but they are by no means unprecedented.

“Roki is by no means a finished product — he knows it, and the teams know it,” Wolfe said.

U.S.-China relations in the years ahead, they are by no means the only ones.