To win the Premier League title, teams generally have to tick five crucial boxes if they are to finish top of the pile at the end of the season.
A solid, reliable goalkeeper is a must -- no team has won the Premier League with an error-prone goalkeeper. Then there is the need for at least one commanding centre-back, a midfielder who will score more than 10 goals, and a striker capable of delivering 20 in the league.
But perhaps the most important box, and the most difficult to tick off, is the one marked "game-changer."
Get yourself such a player and you can be the team that turns defeats into draws and draws into victories.