"Statue for Marina please" was one tweet that summed up the feelings of many Chelsea fans after the club signed Kai Havertz in a £71m deal on Friday.
That praise for director Marina Granovskaia reflected her part in negotiating a price with Bayer Leverkusen £18m short of the German side's previous valuation and showed further evidence of her ruthless streak.
Chelsea have now spent about £200m on six major signings, with two of them free, making them by far the most active Premier League team during this transfer window.
And it might not stop there, with the club also having submitted a bid for Rennes goalkeeper Edouard Mendy.