For Patrick Dorgu, as it is for so many players, getting a crack at the Premier League has long been the dream. Only in Dorgu's case in that dream it was in blue, rather than red, that he'd turn out in England.
'I've been a Chelsea fan for many years, so obviously it's a dream,' the 20-year-old said last year.
'This doesn't mean I can't move to other teams in the Premier League!'
Dorgu, Manchester United's marquee January recruit from Lecce, began life in England by signing his contract at United's Carrington training ground before heading to The Ivy restaurant in the upmarket Spinningfields area with his entourage to toast the five-and-a-half-year contract he's signed at Old Trafford.