Erling Braut Haaland will almost certainly be a Manchester City player next season.
The Premier League champions announced on Tuesday afternoon that they had agreed terms to sign the Borussia Dortmund striker with the deal only subject to finalising a package with the player himself.
It's a massive coup for City with Haaland ranking amongst the best strikers in the world at just 21 years old, boasting an outrageous record of 85 goals in 88 appearances for Dortmund.
A bargain fee for Haaland
In fact, considering that Haaland is touted as a future Ballon d'Or winner, the Citizens can rub their hands together safe in the knowledge that they've snapped him up for what is ultimately a cut price.
Yes, City will have to pay agents fees, monstrous wages and no doubt plenty of other extra costs, but the fact that they could snap him up for a transfer fee of just £54 million is an absolute steal.
To put the price tag into context, the data gurus at Transfermarkt actually laud him as the second-most valuable player in men's football with an eye-watering worth of £135 million.
That means - for those of you doing the mental maths - City have gotten their hands on arguably the world's best number nine for a staggering £81.00 million less than he's actually worth.
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Football's biggest bargains
And there's good reason to think that it makes him the biggest bargain in football history because we simply can't find a bigger gap between transfer value and transfer fee on the Transfermarkt database.
That's because we sorted their list of the 'most valuable transfers' by the difference between how much the player was considered to be worth at the time of the deal and what they actually moved for.
In other words, we're able to collate the most objective list of transfer bargains possible, drawing up the 17 players to have moved for the greatest distance below their contemporary valuation.
Loan moves and first-team promotions are off the table, but free transfers are fair game, so be sure to check out who comes closest to matching Haaland's bargain status by checking out the full list below:
=13. Michael Ballack (Bayern Munich to Chelsea) - £31.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £31.50 million
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Chelsea's Michael Ballack celebrates winning the FA Cup
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=13. Adrien Rabiot (Paris Saint-Germain to Juventus) - £31.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £31.50 million
=13. Hakan Calhanoglu (AC Milan to Inter Milan) - £31.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £31.50 million
Soccer Football - Serie A - Inter Milan v Torino - San Siro, Milan, Italy - December 22, 2021 Inter Milan's Hakan Calhanoglu before the match REUTERS/Alberto Lingria
=13. Niklas Sule (Bayern Munich to Borussia Dortmund) - £31.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £31.50 million
=13. Eden Hazard (Chelsea to Real Madrid) - £31.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £103.50 million
Market value at the time: £135.00 million
Soccer Football - LaLiga - Real Madrid v Cadiz - Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, Spain - December 19, 2021 Real Madrid's Eden Hazard during the warm up before the match REUTERS/Juan Medina
12. Alexis Sanchez (Arsenal to Manchester United) - £32.40 million difference
Transfer fee: £30.60 million
Market value at the time: £63.00 million
=9. Leon Goretzka (Schalke to Bayern Munich) - £36.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £36.00 million
Soccer Football - Champions League - Group E - FC Barcelona vs Bayern Munich - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - September 14, 2021 Bayern Munich's Leon Goretzka in action with FC Barcelona's Gavi REUTERS/Albert Gea
=9. Stefan de Vrij (Lazio to Inter Milan) - £36.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £36.00 million
=9. Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal to Juventus) - £36.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £36.00 million
Soccer Football - Coppa Italia - Quarter Final - Juventus v SPAL - Allianz Stadium, Turin, Italy - January 27, 2021 Juventus' Aaron Ramsey in action REUTERS/Massimo Pinca
8. Nabil Fekir (Lyon to Real Betis) - £36.23 million difference
Transfer fee: £17.78 million
Market value at the time: £54.00 million
7. Memphis Depay (Lyon to Barcelona) - £40.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £40.50 million
Soccer Football - LaLiga - FC Barcelona v Celta Vigo - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - May 10, 2022 FC Barcelona's Memphis Depay celebrates scoring their first goal with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang REUTERS/Albert Gea
6. Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund to Bayern Munich) - £45.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £45.00 million
5. David Alaba (Bayern Munich to Real Madrid) - £49.50 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £49.50 million
Soccer Football - Champions League - Group D - Sheriff Tiraspol v Real Madrid - Bolshaya Sportivnaya Arena, Tiraspol, Moldova - November 24, 2021 Real Madrid's David Alaba celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
4. Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan to Paris Saint-Germain) - £54.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £54.00 million
3. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur to Inter Milan) - £56.70 million difference
Transfer fee: £24.30 million
Market value at the time: £81.00 million
Soccer Football - Serie A - Cagliari v Inter Milan - Sardegna Arena, Cagliari, Italy - December 13, 2020 Inter Milan's Christian Eriksen REUTERS/Alberto Lingria
2. Lionel Messi (Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain) - £72.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £0.00
Market value at the time: £72.00 million
1. Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund to Manchester City) - £81.00 million difference
Transfer fee: £54.00 million
Market value at the time: £135.00 million
Soccer Football - DFB Cup - Round of 16 - FC St. Pauli v Borussia Dortmund - Millerntor-Stadion, Hamburg, Germany - January 18, 2022 Borussia Dortmund's Erling Braut Haaland celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer DFB REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO.
Haaland's record could fall
Bargains. Bargains everywhere.
From the tasty free transfers of Messi and Lewandowski to Eriksen and Fekir getting snapped up for bargain fees, it's interesting to see the most valuable players who were sold far beneath their worth.
And it really is remarkable to see Haaland leading the way with a cavern between his transfer fee and valuation that's so large it was essentially the transfer world record just a few years ago.
However, the only catch is that the future City striker might not hold the title of football's biggest bargain for much longer with Kylian Mbappe potentially signing for Real Madrid on a free transfer this summer.
Soccer Football - Ligue 1 - Brest v Paris St Germain - Stade Francis-Le Ble, Brest, France - August 20, 2021. Paris St Germain's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
And considering that the Paris Saint-Germain star is the only player in the world with a higher valuation than Haaland, the terrifying differential of £144.00 million would raise the bar lightyears higher.
That being said, nothing is guaranteed in football and for now, City can kick back in celebration that they've arguably pulled off the greatest bargain that the sport has ever seen.