Football

From a team that was 15th in La Liga, and scored 53 goals in 10 years, and with a year left on his contract.

Now he's scored 10 in 15 games, is joint stop scorer with Suarez, and probably on a bigger, longer contract, at a team doing much better, at 26 he's entering his prime, he's obviously going to cost a lot more.

He was the top scoring midfielder in La Liga last season, he was hardly unknown.

The only surpriseis that Brendan didn't have a word with him, what with being fluent in Spanish and all.