Hailed as the next big thing to emerge from Argentina, River Plate's precocious 20-year-old playmaker Manuel Lanzini was offered to several Premier League clubs in the summer of 2013.
Tottenham showed strong interest before eventually settling on Christian Eriksen, while Manchester United ruled out a bid because their new manager David Moyes considered him too similar to Shinji Kagawa.
Moyes has long departed Old Trafford but Lanzini is there representing West Ham in the Premier League, and again on Wednesday when the same teams meet in a League Cup quarter-final.
While there is plenty of pressure on West Ham and manager Slaven Bilic because of their lowly league position, Lanzini's roots rule out any chance of being overawed in front of 76,000.