Torino exercised their option to buy Ola Aina from Chelsea for £8.7 million ($11m) after a successful campaign on loan, but this season has done more than secure a long-term club - it also sees the 22-year-old make the African Cup of Nations after disappointingly missing out on the World Cup.
Aina was one of those placed on Gernot Rohr's stand-by list and as such only narrowly missed the cut for Nigeria's 23-man squad in Russia, despite having switched national allegiances from England to the Super Eagles.
Born in London to two Nigerian parents, long-time national team captain and former Chelsea team-mate John Obi Mikel had been laying the charm offensive on Aina to switch countries.