Manchester City do not often conduct business in the January transfer window, but on the odd occasion they have in recent times, things have worked out well.
During Pep Guardiola's tenure only Aymeric Laporte and Gabriel Jesus have arrived at the club during the winter window, although the latter was signed the previous summer but stayed at Palmeiras until January. Julian Alvarez looks set to become the third.
However, there was a time when City often conducted January dealings, many of them bad.
Benjani Mwaruwari is perhaps the most-revered January deadline day signing in City history.
Everything about his first few days at the club is the stuff of legend. City paid an initial fee of £3.87m for the Portsmouth striker on January 31 2008, although the deal nearly didn't come to pass.
The veracity of claims that Benjani fell asleep in the airport and missed his flight to Manchester is not certain, but it is true that the Premier League only just received the necessary paperwork in time.
A few days later the Zimbabwean forward scored on his City debut, in a Manchester derby no-less, to give the Blues their first win at Old Trafford in 34 years. No sooner had he walked in the door, Benjani had secured his place in City folklore.
Because of that, few people remember the other striker City signed that deadline day. Felipe Caicedo came off the bench to also make his debut before the Stretford End.
The Ecuadorian, just 19 at the time, failed to score in any of his 10 Premier League appearances in the remainder of 2007/08, although the following season he did manage seven in 25 games across all competitions.
In 2009 he was sent on the first of a series of loan spells, that ended with him being sold to Spanish side Levante in the summer of 2011. A final haul of 35 appearances and seven goals hardly made him the most successful of deadline day panic buys.
However, in recent years Caicedo has proved that there is indeed life after leaving City, making him an exception rather than the rule in the modern era.
Over a period of eight years he enjoyed intermittent success at the likes of Levante, Lokomotiv Moscow and Espanyol, before earning a surprising move to Italian giants Lazio in 2017.
In Rome, Caicedo largely played second fiddle to an in-form Ciro Immobile, but he managed to develop a habit of coming off the bench to score important late goals for the Biancoceleste.
Last summer he left for Serie A strugglers Genoa, but now it appears that he is set to reunite with former Lazio manager Simone Inzaghi at Inter Milan on a six-month loan. There, like he did at Lazio, he will support an elite striker - a certain Edin Dzeko.
Dzeko himself is living proof that great success can be had after leaving the Etihad Stadium, even if that doesn't necessarily translate into silverware.
In 260 games for Roma, the Bosnian Diamond scored 119 goals, while at Inter he has netted 12 times in his opening 29 outings. With his side currently topping Serie A, the 35-year-old could be set to win his first league title since leaving City.
Given the way in which Caicedo has practically been forgotten about by City fans, you'd think it was he who had slipped into obscurity, and Benjani who had gone on to play for some of major European clubs.
But football works in strange ways and deadline day deals are unpredictable. Making last-minute signings is like playing with fire. Both players and City know that well, although Caicedo is still burning brightly enough despite most expectations.
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