In the age of social media and endless football coverage, it is not often a player arrives at a club as a relatively unknown quantity.
In that sense, Manchester City's signing of Uzbekistan defender Abdukodir Khusanov is a throwback to a bygone time.
Khusanov, 20, completed a £33.6m move from French club RC Lens on Monday and is set to become the first player from his nation to play in the Premier League.
Though the centre-back has much of his career ahead of him, the move caps a remarkable rise. In fewer than four years, the young defender has overcome rejection in his homeland to become one of the game's most exciting prospects.