Alexis Sanchez will step onto the pitch at St James' Park on Sunday afternoon as the best-paid star in the Premier League, no mean feat given the squillions that go into players' pockets every month.
Reports of his salary vary from £350,000 to £600,000-a-week depending on whether tax, image rights and bonuses are taken into account.
For that money, the Chilean will be expected to provide plenty of goals and assists for Manchester United.
Yet manager Jose Mourinho insists it was the 29-year-old's insatiable work ethic and experience of handling expectations at Barcelona that persuaded him to gazump Manchester City at a huge financial cost.